Union Grove Church

The community around Union Grove Church

It takes 3.2 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 41.0%
• Social Isolation: 35.0%
• Child Poverty: 30.9% (13.3–48.5%)
• Diabetes: 16.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
• Poverty Rate: 19.8% (11.9–27.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.7%
• Unemployment: 6.6% (1.5–11.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Union Grove Church

• Ocopla Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Center Hill Church — 1.3 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 2.2 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 2.5 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.7 mi away
• Sandtown United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Greenfield Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Faith Tabernacle Apostolic Church — 3 mi away
• East Philadelphia Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Philadelphia Church of Christ — 3.3 mi away