Sterling Church

The community around Sterling Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.

• Depression: 25.8%
• Poverty Rate: 18.0% (10.5–25.5%)
• Unemployment: 7.1% (3.5–10.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sterling Church

• Grace Free Lutheran Church — 3.9 mi away in Bruce, SD
• First Reformed Church — 5 mi away in Volga, SD
• First Lutheran Brookings — 5.5 mi away in Brookings, SD
• Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church — 5.6 mi away in Volga, SD
• Brookings Christian Church — 5.6 mi away in Brookings, SD
• Christian Reformed Church — 5.7 mi away in Volga, SD
• Veritas Church — 5.8 mi away in Brookings, SD
• First Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Brookings, SD
• Mount Calvary Lutheran Church — 5.9 mi away in Brookings, SD
• United Methodist Student Center — 5.9 mi away in Brookings, SD