Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart is a Catholic church at 72 Pleasant Street in Waterville, ME 04901. It is one of 25 churches in Waterville, and one of 2 Catholic congregations in the city.
72 Pleasant Street, Waterville, ME, 04901Sacred Heart is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 123 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Maine — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Sacred Heart
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Depression: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 29.1% (19.6–38.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
- Child Poverty: 26.2% (9.0–43.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.9–11.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waterville city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 1,315 residents.
Churches near Sacred Heart
- Pleasant Street United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Getchell Street United Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Waterville UCC — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Archangels Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Set Free Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Joseph's Maronite Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Blessed Hope Advent Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Universalist Unitarian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St. Joseph's Maronite Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Blessed Hope Advent Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Notre Dame du Perpetual Secours Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- St Theresa's Catholic Church — 4.3 mi away in Oakland, ME