Wayland Church

The community around Wayland Church

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Obesity: 40.5%
• Child Poverty: 38.6% (24.7–53.2%)
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
• Food Insecurity: 16.8%
• Unemployment: 7.2% (2.4–12.0%)

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

Churches near Wayland Church

• Mattaponi Church — 1.9 mi away
• Zion Church — 2.4 mi away
• Providence Church — 3.5 mi away
• Smyrna Church — 3.8 mi away
• Mattaponi Indian Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Mattaponi Indian Reservation, VA
• New Mount Zion Church — 5 mi away
• Bruington Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Bruington, VA
• Colosse Church — 5.2 mi away in West Point, VA
• Bethlehem Church — 5.4 mi away
• Mizpah Church — 5.7 mi away