Wards Chapel

The community around Wards Chapel

It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 96.6%
• Poverty Rate: 36.4% (26.0–46.9%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
• Food Insecurity: 31.1%
• Diabetes: 19.8%
• Social Isolation: 36.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
• Obesity: 39.0%
• Depression: 26.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (2.2–11.5%)

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

Churches near Wards Chapel

• Saint Johns Chapel — 0.9 mi away
• Liberty Church — 2.2 mi away
• Halls Church — 2.7 mi away
• Enterprise Church — 2.7 mi away
• Salem Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Salem Church — 3.5 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 3.6 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 3.8 mi away
• D'arbonne Church of Christ — 3.8 mi away
• Antioch Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away