Sweet Canaan Church

The community around Sweet Canaan Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Child Poverty: 69.8%
• Obesity: 51.7%
• Social Isolation: 42.6%
• Food Insecurity: 42.1%
• Poverty Rate: 37.7% (27.7–47.8%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
• Diabetes: 24.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (6.7–16.4%)
• Unemployment: 7.5% (1.8–13.3%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Canaan Church

• Sweet Canaan Church of God & Christ — 0.4 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 1.7 mi away
• Lebanon Church — 2.7 mi away
• Pine Grove Church — 2.9 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 3.6 mi away
• Sweetwater Church — 3.7 mi away
• Sunny Mount Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Gorden Chapel Church — 4.8 mi away
• Union Church — 4.9 mi away
• Rose Bank Church — 4.9 mi away