Sweet Home Church

The community around Sweet Home Church

It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.6% (11.9–29.4%)
• Social Isolation: 32.3%
• Depression: 27.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Obesity: 38.2%
• Food Insecurity: 19.8%
• Poverty Rate: 16.7% (7.2–26.1%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
• Unemployment: 7.1% (0.7–13.4%)

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

Churches near Sweet Home Church

• Mount Calvary Church — 1.7 mi away
• Shiloh Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Grassy Knob Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Union Grove, NC
• Smith Chapel Church — 2.5 mi away in Union Grove, NC
• Smyths Chapel — 2.5 mi away
• Zion Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Union Grove United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• North Iredell Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Union Grove, NC
• Saint Paul Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Union Church — 3.7 mi away