Our Lady of Hope
Our Lady of Hope is a Catholic church at 40 Park Avenue in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 80 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Catholic congregations in the city.
In the late 1800’s our Polish ancestors began settling in the Northeastern United States, primarily working in the steel mills and the coal mines of Pennsylvania.
40 Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Website: https://ourladyofhope.us/
Our Lady of Hope is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Our Lady of Hope
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 20.8% (11.5–30.0%)
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (18.1–41.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (4.4–18.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Our Lady of Hope
- Christian Assembly Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unity of NEPA — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De RestauraciÓN Unidos En Cristo Wb — 0.1 mi away
- St. Mark's Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Piedra Angular — 0.2 mi away
- Puritan Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Vida Nueva Church — 0.3 mi away
- Restored Church — 0.3 mi away