Sweetwater Church

The community around Sweetwater Church

It takes 6.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.8% (16.8–28.7%)
• Child Poverty: 31.1% (14.5–47.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Obesity: 37.8%
• Poverty Rate: 21.4% (12.2–30.7%)
• Unemployment: 6.8% (1.0–12.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweetwater Church

• Friendship Church — 5.6 mi away
• Maranatha Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
• Crewsville Bethel Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away
• St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 8 mi away
• Hardee County Spanish United Methodist Church — 8.2 mi away
• New Vision Worship Center — 8.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Zolfo Springs — 8.3 mi away
• Crossroads Community Church — 8.3 mi away
• New Hope Church — 8.6 mi away in Wauchula, FL