Wharton Furnace Chapel

The community around Wharton Furnace Chapel

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 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.

• Poverty Rate: 28.0%
• Depression: 24.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
• Diabetes: 13.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Wharton Furnace Chapel

• Farmington Bethel Covenant Brethren Church — 1.8 mi away in Farmington, PA
• Bethel Chapel — 1.8 mi away
• Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Saint Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away
• Mt Washington Presbyterian Church — 2.5 mi away
• Laurel Mountain Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Wharton Twp, PA
• Canaan Church — 4.5 mi away
• Sansom Chapel — 4.7 mi away
• Salem Church of the Brethren — 6.5 mi away
• Meadow Run Valley Church — 6.6 mi away in Ohiopyle, PA