Jerusalem Church

The community around Jerusalem Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Poverty Rate: 31.6% (22.4–40.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 25.5%
• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Obesity: 43.7%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Child Poverty: 33.2% (16.0–50.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
• Depression: 24.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (8.3–18.7%)
• Transportation Barriers: 13.0%

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

Churches near Jerusalem Church

• Corinth Church — 1.7 mi away
• Cedar Grove Church — 1.9 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Saint John Church — 2.3 mi away
• Smyrna Church — 2.4 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Chadbourn Church of God — 2.6 mi away
• Our Lords Chapel — 2.6 mi away
• Chadbourn Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• The Shepherds House Church inc. — 3.1 mi away
• Chadbourn Pentecostal Holiness Church — 3.1 mi away
• Chadbourn United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away