Mattaponi Church

The community around Mattaponi Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Obesity: 40.7%
• Child Poverty: 40.0% (25.5–55.0%)
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
• Food Insecurity: 17.0%
• Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.7–23.0%)
• Unemployment: 7.1% (2.5–11.7%)

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

Churches near Mattaponi Church

• Zion Church — 1 mi away
• Wayland Church — 1.9 mi away
• Mattaponi Indian Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Mattaponi Indian Reservation, VA
• Providence Church — 5 mi away
• Smyrna Church — 5.3 mi away
• Colosse Church — 5.5 mi away in West Point, VA
• Union Hope Church — 5.7 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 6.1 mi away
• Trinity Church — 6.3 mi away in West Point, VA
• Second Mount Olive Church — 6.7 mi away