Southern Church
Southern Church is a church in Ruth, NC 28139. It is one of 2 churches in Ruth.
Ruth, NC, 28139Website: https://www.sbcruth.org/
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The community around Southern Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Child Poverty: 30.6% (13.8–47.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (9.2–23.9%)
- Unemployment: 10.8% (3.6–18.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.9% (13.8–30.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Southern Church
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
- Bible Tabernacle Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Francis Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
- Trinity Lutheran Church (Rutherfordton, North Carolina) — 0.7 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
- Mountain View Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
- Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
- First Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
- Rutherfordton First Baptist — 0.8 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
- Saint Gabriels Church — 1.1 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC