Walnut Grove Church

The community around Walnut Grove Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Depression: 32.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
• Obesity: 44.0%
• Social Isolation: 35.2%
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Child Poverty: 26.0% (9.6–42.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%

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

Churches near Walnut Grove Church

• Middle Creek Church — 1.4 mi away
• Hamlin Church of Christ — 1.8 mi away
• Hamlin Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Middle Fork Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Myra Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Big Laurel Church — 2.8 mi away
• Scary Church — 2.8 mi away
• Little Laurel Church — 3.3 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in West Hamlin, WV