Powley Creek Church

The community around Powley Creek Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Diabetes: 18.7%
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Depression: 31.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
• Obesity: 39.8%
• Food Insecurity: 19.8%
• Poverty Rate: 18.6% (10.7–26.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
• Unemployment: 7.7% (0.5–15.2%)

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

Churches near Powley Creek Church

• Big Creek Church — 1.1 mi away
• Upland Church — 2.4 mi away
• Elk Knob Church — 3 mi away
• River Valley Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Keatley Springs Church — 3.4 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.8 mi away
• Bennett Church — 3.9 mi away
• Judson Freewill Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Alderson, WV
• Hinton Church of Christ — 4.1 mi away
• Little Wolf Creek Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away