Blairs Ridge Church

The community around Blairs Ridge Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Depression: 31.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Unemployment: 11.3% (0.8–21.9%)
• Obesity: 38.7%
• Social Isolation: 31.2%
• Child Poverty: 25.0% (11.3–39.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

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

Churches near Blairs Ridge Church

• Pleasant Valley Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in Cameron, WV
• Waymans Ridge United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Limestone Church — 2.4 mi away
• Fork Ridge Church — 2.4 mi away
• Fork Ridge Church — 2.6 mi away
• Middle Grave Creek Church of the Brethren — 3 mi away
• Church of God Seventh Day Adventist — 3.1 mi away
• Wood Hill United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Beelers Station Christian Church — 3.3 mi away in Cameron, WV
• Upper Wolf Run Presbyterian Church — 3.5 mi away in Cameron, WV