Portage Lake United Church
Portage Lake United Church is a Presbyterian,United_church_of_christ church at 1400 East Houghton Avenue in Houghton, MI 49931. It is one of 21 churches in Houghton.
Portage Lake Untied Church is one congregation, the result of two historic local congregations merging.
1400 East Houghton Avenue, Houghton, MI, 49931Phone: +1-906-482-5224 · Website: https://pluc.org/
Portage Lake United Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Portage Lake United Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 38.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Depression: 30.1%
- Unemployment: 10.5% (5.9–15.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.7% (12.9–27.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Portage Lake United Church
- Canterbury House — 0.1 mi away
- His House Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Evangel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Albert the Great Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Ignatius Loyala Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Peninsula Christian Church — 0.7 mi away in Hancock, MI
- Maranatha Free Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away