Saint Stephen Church

The community around Saint Stephen Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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: 46.5% (28.4–64.6%)
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Poverty Rate: 25.7% (17.4–34.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.2% (11.2–25.3%)
• Obesity: 39.3%
• Depression: 24.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
• Diabetes: 14.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

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

Churches near Saint Stephen Church

• Alum Springs Church — 1 mi away
• Snow Hill Church — 1.3 mi away
• Piney Green Church — 1.3 mi away
• Long Ridge Church — 1.3 mi away
• Deavers Chapel — 3.1 mi away in Albertson, NC
• Rooty Branch Church — 3.3 mi away
• Sutton Chapel — 3.5 mi away
• Bethel Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Woodland Church — 3.6 mi away in Albertson, NC
• Smith Chapel — 4.1 mi away in Warsaw, NC