Old Pleasant Church

The community around Old Pleasant Church

It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Obesity: 45.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
• Depression: 34.1%
• Food Insecurity: 25.1%
• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Unemployment: 14.5% (3.5–25.5%)
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Poverty Rate: 28.0% (17.2–38.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
• Child Poverty: 27.2% (10.0–44.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Old Pleasant Church

• Perry Memorial Church — 1.5 mi away
• Rush Branch Church — 1.8 mi away
• Genoa Church Of God — 1.9 mi away in Genoa, WV
• Wilson Chapel — 2 mi away
• Bethel Church — 2.2 mi away
• Saltpetre Community Church — 2.5 mi away
• Mill Creek Church — 2.8 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 3 mi away
• Peters Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• Upper Greenbrier Church — 3.4 mi away