Washington Square United Methodist Church
Washington Square United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Hagerstown, MD 21740. It is one of 154 churches in Hagerstown, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
Hagerstown, MD, 21740Website: http://www.wsumc.net/
Washington Square United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 964 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 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 Washington Square United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (13.1–34.3%)
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 10.5% (3.3–17.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Child Poverty: 23.1% (5.1–41.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.6–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Hagerstown city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 1,064 residents.
Churches near Washington Square United Methodist Church
- Saint Marks Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Matthews United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- GCM — 0.1 mi away
- Harvest Intercontinental Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Matthews United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- John Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
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