Sacred Heart Church

The community around Sacred Heart Church

It takes 4.7 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 adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Obesity: 41.9%
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Child Poverty: 30.3% (17.2–43.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
• Food Insecurity: 23.4%
• Diabetes: 17.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
• Poverty Rate: 21.1% (14.7–27.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (9.0–16.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (2.1–10.2%)

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

Churches near Sacred Heart Church

• Mount Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
• Friendship Church — 0.9 mi away
• Brundage Mount Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Fountain Grove Church — 2.2 mi away
• White Springs Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Gordon, GA
• New Bethel Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Irwinton, GA
• McIntyre Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Reynolds Temple Church Of God In Christ — 3.3 mi away in Irwinton, GA
• Faith Church — 3.3 mi away in Gordon, GA