Marrowbone Church

The community around Marrowbone Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
• Depression: 33.0%
• Poverty Rate: 32.5% (20.8–44.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 29.0%
• Diabetes: 19.4%
• Obesity: 43.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (0.8–13.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Marrowbone Church

• Saint John Neumann Church — 2.2 mi away
• Kermit United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Jennie Creek Church — 2.3 mi away
• Family Fellowship Church-Kermit WV — 2.4 mi away
• Riverview Church — 2.4 mi away
• Stoney Hill Church — 2.4 mi away
• Warfield Missionary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Warfield, KY
• Trinity Church — 2.5 mi away
• Warfield Church of God — 2.6 mi away in Warfield, KY
• Baisden Church — 2.9 mi away