South Park United Methodist Church
South Park United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Canton, IL 61520. It is one of 40 churches in Canton, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Canton, IL, 61520South Park United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,370 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 South Park United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 12.8% (4.2–21.4%)
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Food Insecurity: 19.3%
- Poverty Rate: 17.1% (9.6–24.6%)
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Canton city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 195 residents.
Churches near South Park United Methodist Church
- Canton Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.5 mi away
- St Peter's Anglican Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Marys Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Brethren — 0.7 mi away
- Berean Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint David Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Saint David, IL
- Locust Lane United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
- First Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.4 mi away in Norris, IL