St Benedict Parish
St Benedict Parish is a church at 155 Austin Ave in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705-2603. It is one of 80 churches in Wilkes-Barre.
155 Austin Ave, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18705-2603Phone: +15708228871 · Website: http://StBenedictWB.org/
Shares a ministry location with St. Dominic's.
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The community around St Benedict Parish
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Child Poverty: 27.1% (8.6–46.7%)
- Depression: 24.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (10.5–28.7%)
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Benedict Parish
- St. Dominic's — 0 mi away
- Parsons Primitive Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Parsons Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Wilkes Barre Spanish SDA Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ebenezer International Harvest Assembly Of God — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Trinity Orthodox Church — 0.8 mi away
- Miner Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away in Plains, PA
- Exaltation of The Holy Cross Hall — 0.9 mi away
- Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away in Plains, PA