Tar City Church

The community around Tar City Church

It takes 3.2 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 nearly a quarter 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.

• Obesity: 41.0%
• Social Isolation: 37.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.2%
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Child Poverty: 29.2% (15.1–43.2%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.7% (12.8–28.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (7.9–17.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

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

Churches near Tar City Church

• Bay Branch Primitive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Claxton, GA
• Rehovah Church — 2.2 mi away
• Rehoboth Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Trinity Church of the Nazarene — 2.4 mi away in Claxton, GA
• Mount Zion Church — 4 mi away in Claxton, GA
• Bishop Graces Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Bellville, GA
• Union United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away in Claxton, GA
• Harmony United Methodist Chr — 5.2 mi away in Glennville, GA
• Beulah Church — 5.2 mi away in Glennville, GA
• Harmony United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away in Glennville, GA