Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Sacred Heart Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Fort Dodge, IA 50501. It is one of 59 churches in Fort Dodge, and one of 3 Catholic congregations in the city.
Fort Dodge, IA, 50501Sacred Heart Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 443 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Iowa — 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 Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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: 46.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.5% (12.8–32.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.9–10.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Fort Dodge city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near Sacred Heart Catholic Church
- Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Olaf Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Damascus Road — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Corpus Christi Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 9.8 mi away in Duncombe, IA
- Saint Matthew's Catholic Church — 10 mi away in Clare, IA
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 15.4 mi away in Humboldt, IA