Oil Ridge Church

The community around Oil Ridge Church

It takes 7.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Child Poverty: 47.7% (30.2–65.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
• Diabetes: 19.6%
• Obesity: 44.1%
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Depression: 30.7%
• Poverty Rate: 26.9% (18.2–35.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%

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

Churches near Oil Ridge Church

• Log Church — 2.2 mi away
• Morris Chapel — 2.4 mi away
• Cairo Church — 2.6 mi away
• Saint Williams Church — 3 mi away in Cairo, WV
• Davisson Chapel — 3.6 mi away
• Spruce Grove Church — 3.8 mi away
• Cedar Grove Church — 4.5 mi away
• King Knob Church — 5.1 mi away
• North Fork Church — 5.1 mi away
• Deem Chapel — 5.2 mi away