Sweet Canaan Church

The community around Sweet Canaan Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of adults live with obesity, and more than half 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

• Obesity: 56.1%
• Food Insecurity: 55.3%
• Child Poverty: 50.6% (32.7–68.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.0%
• Social Isolation: 43.4%
• Poverty Rate: 39.5% (28.0–51.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 39.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 28.2%
• Diabetes: 27.8%
• Unemployment: 10.2% (1.7–18.6%)
• Depression: 25.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Canaan Church

• First Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
• New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• China Grove Church — 1.1 mi away
• Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• St John Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Pursuit — 1.6 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Saint James AME Church — 1.8 mi away
• Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 1.8 mi away