Refuge Church

The community around Refuge Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
• Food Insecurity: 28.1%
• Diabetes: 21.3%
• Obesity: 42.1%
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Poverty Rate: 23.9% (14.7–33.0%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.8% (4.8–26.7%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
• Unemployment: 9.3% (1.6–17.6%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.5%

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

Churches near Refuge Church

• Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Good News Church of God — 0.3 mi away
• Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
• Pilgrim Way of the Cross Church — 0.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Scotland Neck Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
• Scotland Neck Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Trinity Episcopal Church (Scotland Neck, North Carolina) — 0.6 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.9 mi away
• Kingdom Empowerment Ministries — 1 mi away