Wakelon Church

The community around Wakelon Church

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
• Food Insecurity: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (11.0–21.0%)
• Depression: 23.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%

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

Churches near Wakelon Church

• Wakelon Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.8 mi away
• Wynns Grove Church — 1.1 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 1.4 mi away
• Bethany Church — 2.2 mi away
• Perrytown Assembly of God Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Olivet Church — 2.5 mi away in Merry Hill, NC
• Zion Hill Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Marks Church — 3.8 mi away
• Mars Hill Church — 3.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4 mi away