Wares Chapel

The community around Wares Chapel

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.6%
• Obesity: 42.5%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
• Poverty Rate: 24.7% (15.0–34.4%)
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Unemployment: 11.6% (5.1–18.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
• Depression: 24.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Wares Chapel

• Gospel Light Church — 0.2 mi away
• Promised Land Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
• Family Worship Center — 1 mi away
• Corinth Church — 1.3 mi away
• Uniontown Church of Christ — 2.1 mi away
• Union Town Church — 2.1 mi away
• Long Ridge Missionary Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Plymouth, NC
• Grace Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Plymouth, NC
• Plymouth Church of God — 3.8 mi away in Plymouth, NC
• Temple of Christ Church — 3.8 mi away in Plymouth, NC