Bethel Church

The community around Bethel 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 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 32.9% (22.7–43.0%)
• Unemployment: 17.2% (10.7–23.7%)
• Obesity: 40.6%
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
• Depression: 28.0%
• Food Insecurity: 22.8%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Child Poverty: 25.6% (6.7–44.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (7.4–16.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%

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

Churches near Bethel Church

• Hartland Church of God — 1.2 mi away
• Missionary Church — 1.8 mi away
• Arneys Fairview United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Ollis Hill Church — 2.1 mi away in Lenoir, NC
• Abundant Life Tabernacle — 2.3 mi away
• Mars Hill AME Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Lenoir, NC
• Walking By Faith Baptis Church — 2.4 mi away
• Conways Chapel — 2.5 mi away in Lenoir, NC
• Arneys Chapel Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Hartland Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Lenoir, NC