Dogwood Church

The community around Dogwood 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 49.7%
• Child Poverty: 45.3% (31.3–59.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
• Food Insecurity: 32.8%
• Poverty Rate: 30.1% (22.3–37.8%)
• Diabetes: 21.5%
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
• Unemployment: 10.2% (4.6–15.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Dogwood Church

• Benson Church — 1 mi away
• Ashpole Center United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• New Bethel Church — 1.3 mi away in Fairmont, NC
• Aaron Church — 1.6 mi away in Fairmont, NC
• Greater Highway Church of Christ — 2 mi away
• Centenary Church — 2.6 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 2.8 mi away
• Mt. Pleasant AME Church — 2.8 mi away
• Rowland United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Christian Fellowship Ministry of Rowland — 3.1 mi away