Dickens Valley Church

The community around Dickens Valley Church

It takes 9.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Obesity: 40.9%
• Child Poverty: 38.1% (25.4–50.9%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Unemployment: 10.0% (4.7–15.2%)
• Social Isolation: 30.9%
• Depression: 25.7%
• Poverty Rate: 19.6% (14.2–25.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (9.0–16.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%

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

Churches near Dickens Valley Church

• Antioch Church — 3.4 mi away
• Camelite Church — 4.6 mi away
• Saint Ann Church — 4.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• United Methodist Church — 5 mi away
• First Assembly of God — 5 mi away
• Dagonia Church — 5.2 mi away
• Carr Creek Church — 5.3 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 7.9 mi away
• Polk Church — 8.4 mi away