Myrtle Head Church

The community around Myrtle Head Church

It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 33.1%
• Obesity: 37.9%
• Depression: 26.4%
• Child Poverty: 23.4% (8.6–38.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
• Poverty Rate: 17.8% (8.3–27.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.4%
• Diabetes: 13.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Myrtle Head Church

• Saint Matthew Church — 3 mi away
• New Britton Church — 3.2 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 3.3 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• New Life Church — 3.5 mi away
• Magnolia Church — 4.1 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Old Dock Church — 5 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Palmyra Church — 5.1 mi away
• Soldier Bay Church — 5.9 mi away
• Union Church — 7.4 mi away
• Trinity Church — 8 mi away