Brooks Church

The community around Brooks Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

• Obesity: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 20.7%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Child Poverty: 26.8% (8.4–45.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.6% (13.0–30.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.1–19.6%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

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

Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.

Churches near Brooks Church

• Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
• Grace Church — 0.2 mi away
• Victory Drive Church of God — 0.2 mi away
• Waycross Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Okefenokee Church — 0.2 mi away
• Piedmont Okefenokee Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• First Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Carthedral of Faith Ministries, Waycross, Georgia — 0.4 mi away
• Sunnyside Church — 0.6 mi away
• Waycross First Assembly — 0.7 mi away