Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church
Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 240 Washington Road in Sharon, GA 30631. It is one of 3 churches in Sharon.
240 Washington Road, Sharon, GA, 30631Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 263 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Georgia — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church
It takes 7.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
- Food Insecurity: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Child Poverty: 34.1% (15.3–52.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.4% (12.7–30.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (5.9–18.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church
- Sharon Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Paul Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- Raytown Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- Raytown United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- Friendship CME Church — 3.5 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- Greater Level Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- Jennings Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
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