Whitfield United Methodist Church
Whitfield United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1319 West 5th Street in Sioux City, IA 51103. It is one of 138 churches in Sioux City, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
1319 West 5th Street, Sioux City, IA, 51103Whitfield United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 743 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Whitfield United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Food Insecurity: 33.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.5%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Child Poverty: 26.7% (12.0–41.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.8% (11.6–28.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (7.0–18.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sioux City city is served by 105 churches — about one congregation for every 808 residents.
Churches near Whitfield United Methodist Church
- Apostolic Faith Tabernacle Church — 0.2 mi away
- Center Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Boniface Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Elevate Community Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Crescent Park Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Trimble United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in South Sioux City, NE
- Riverside United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away