Lathea Church

The community around Lathea Church

It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 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.

• Social Isolation: 32.8%
• Unemployment: 10.1% (3.9–16.2%)
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Child Poverty: 29.5% (12.6–46.7%)
• Depression: 25.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
• Food Insecurity: 18.8%
• Poverty Rate: 18.2% (11.5–25.0%)
• Diabetes: 14.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%

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

Churches near Lathea Church

• Lee Thee AME Zion Church — 0 mi away
• Green Lake Church — 1.4 mi away in Ellerbe, NC
• Richards Church — 1.6 mi away
• Sandy Ridge Church — 1.9 mi away
• Sidney Grove Church-Deliverance — 2.6 mi away in Ellerbe, NC
• Crestview Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Rourks Church — 2.7 mi away in Ellerbe, NC
• Rourk Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away in Ellerbe, NC
• Roberdell Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Sneed Grove AME Zion Church — 3 mi away in Ellerbe, NC