Upper Greenbrier Church

The community around Upper Greenbrier Church

It takes 3.5 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 of adults here carry depression, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 45.4%
• Depression: 33.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
• Diabetes: 18.2%
• Social Isolation: 35.0%
• Poverty Rate: 26.5% (16.0–37.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
• Unemployment: 11.9% (2.6–21.4%)
• Child Poverty: 29.4% (11.7–47.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%

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

Churches near Upper Greenbrier Church

• Hopewell Church — 1.5 mi away
• Rush Branch Church — 1.7 mi away
• Genoa Church Of God — 1.7 mi away in Genoa, WV
• Twelvepole Valley Church — 2.3 mi away
• Greenbrier Church — 2.3 mi away
• Spruce Lick Church — 2.5 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 2.6 mi away
• Perry Memorial Church — 2.7 mi away
• Old Pleasant Church — 3.4 mi away
• Wilson Chapel — 3.6 mi away