South Union Church

The community around South Union Church

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Unemployment: 12.4% (5.1–20.0%)
• Obesity: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
• Food Insecurity: 23.4%
• Diabetes: 17.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Child Poverty: 24.5% (10.7–38.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 18.8% (11.5–26.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%

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

Churches near South Union Church

• Old Lebanon Church — 0.4 mi away
• New Zion Church — 2.4 mi away
• Chester Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Ackerman Church of Christ — 3.1 mi away
• Enon Presbyterian Church — 3.2 mi away
• Gospel Temple Church of God in Christ — 3.3 mi away
• Ackerman United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Ackerman Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Salem Church — 3.7 mi away
• Church of God — 3.7 mi away