Scary Church

The community around Scary Church

It takes 3.6 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: 45.3%
• Depression: 32.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.2%
• Diabetes: 18.7%
• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Poverty Rate: 22.2% (12.4–32.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.6%
• Child Poverty: 25.0% (8.8–41.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
• Unemployment: 7.2% (2.1–12.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Scary Church

• Union Church — 1 mi away
• Middle Fork Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Eden Church — 2.1 mi away
• Middle Creek Church — 2.6 mi away
• Church of Christ — 2.8 mi away
• Walnut Grove Church — 2.8 mi away
• Big Laurel Church — 3 mi away
• Sand Fork Church — 3.5 mi away
• Yawkey United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Central Big Creek Church — 4.1 mi away