Wilmington Friends Meeting House
Wilmington Friends Meeting House is a Quaker church at 401 North West Street in Wilmington, DE 19801. It is one of 243 churches in Wilmington.
401 North West Street, Wilmington, DE, 19801Wilmington Friends Meeting House is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 5 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Delaware — 535 across the United States on The Church Map.
Friends were ahead of the whole church on abolition, on prison reform, and on the ministry of women, and they were ahead at real cost. Their practice of waiting on God together in silence is what the rest of the body borrows when words have run out.
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The community around Wilmington Friends Meeting House
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 66.0%
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Food Insecurity: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (20.9–48.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (2.0–16.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilmington city is served by 35 churches — about one congregation for every 2,029 residents.
Churches near Wilmington Friends Meeting House
- Tabernacle Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Peter — 0.1 mi away
- New Mt. Bethel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple United Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater St John Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Strong Tower Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- All Nations Family Church — 0.2 mi away
- Household of Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew — 0.2 mi away
- New Pentecostal United Holy Church — 0.3 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Centre Friends Meeting — 5.9 mi away in Greenville, DE
- Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse — 8.1 mi away in Hockessin, DE
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