UKirk WCU

The community around UKirk WCU

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

• Social Isolation: 40.2%
• Poverty Rate: 32.9%
• Depression: 31.8%
• Unemployment: 10.1% (6.6–13.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.7% (13.3–23.8%)

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

Churches near UKirk WCU

• Catamounts for Christ — 0 mi away
• Catholic Campus Ministry — 0.1 mi away
• Cullowhee United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
• St. David's Episcopal Chuch — 0.3 mi away
• Cullowhee Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Baptist Student Fellowship at WCU — 0.4 mi away
• Mount Carmel Church — 1.3 mi away
• Cullowhee Church of God — 1.6 mi away
• New Hope Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Sylva, NC
• Live Forgiven Church — 1.9 mi away in Sylva, NC