Iona Church

The community around Iona Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Child Poverty: 59.1%
• Obesity: 49.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
• Food Insecurity: 33.2%
• Poverty Rate: 31.7% (23.6–39.8%)
• Diabetes: 22.2%
• Unemployment: 12.9% (5.9–19.8%)
• Social Isolation: 32.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (8.5–16.4%)

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

Churches near Iona Church

• Aaron Church — 2.2 mi away
• Pleasant Hope Church — 2.3 mi away
• New Bethel Church — 2.5 mi away
• Reedy Branch Church — 2.6 mi away
• Baltimore Church — 3 mi away
• Fairview Church — 3.1 mi away
• Pleasant View Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Cromartie Temple Assembly Building — 3.1 mi away
• Fairpoint Free Will Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Star of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away