Portwood Church

The community around Portwood Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Child Poverty: 44.5%
• Poverty Rate: 33.8%
• Food Insecurity: 32.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
• Diabetes: 20.3%
• Unemployment: 13.0% (5.7–20.4%)
• Obesity: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 36.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.5–16.7%)

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

Churches near Portwood Church

• Saint Mark Church — 1.6 mi away
• Green Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
• Hill View Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
• First Christian Church — 3.3 mi away
• East Money Church — 3.4 mi away
• New Einnard Church — 3.5 mi away
• Salem Church — 3.6 mi away
• Westminster Presbyterian Church — 3.7 mi away
• Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away