Lower Wharton Church

The community around Lower Wharton Church

It takes 5.1 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Obesity: 41.0%
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
• Food Insecurity: 20.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
• Depression: 25.8%
• Child Poverty: 22.3% (9.4–35.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 16.6% (9.7–23.6%)
• Diabetes: 14.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%

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

Churches near Lower Wharton Church

• Upper Wharton Church — 2.9 mi away
• Aurora Church — 3.4 mi away
• Jones Community Church — 3.7 mi away
• Cowboy Church — 5 mi away
• Big Sandy Church — 5.1 mi away
• Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 5.3 mi away
• Huntsville Latter Day Saints — 5.3 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 5.3 mi away
• Huntsville First Baptist — 5.4 mi away
• Marshallesse Church — 5.9 mi away