Sweet Home Church

The community around Sweet Home Church

It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
• Poverty Rate: 22.6% (14.2–31.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.4%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Obesity: 38.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
• Child Poverty: 26.8% (16.1–38.2%)
• Depression: 23.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Home Church

• Pleasant Home Church — 0.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Emerson Church — 1.2 mi away
• Pine Hill Church — 3 mi away
• Wingfield Church — 3.3 mi away
• Forest Grove Church — 3.6 mi away
• Brister Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Roadside Church — 4 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 4.2 mi away