West Marks Church

The community around West Marks Church

It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third 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: 51.9%
• Food Insecurity: 39.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 28.2%
• Diabetes: 24.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
• Social Isolation: 38.3%
• Child Poverty: 34.9% (17.4–52.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
• Poverty Rate: 24.7% (16.5–32.9%)
• Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
• Unemployment: 10.4% (3.5–17.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (7.4–16.7%)

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

Churches near West Marks Church

• New Life Church of God — 0.2 mi away
• Valley Queen Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• New Paradise MB Church — 1.1 mi away
• Belmont Church — 1.2 mi away
• Silent Grove Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Greater Mount Zion Church of God — 1.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Marks — 1.4 mi away
• Marks Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi away
• Marks United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Belmount M. B. Church — 1.5 mi away