Jerusalem Church

The community around Jerusalem Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.5%
• Obesity: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 33.4%
• Child Poverty: 30.2% (14.4–46.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 27.7% (16.8–38.6%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (10.9–22.2%)
• Unemployment: 8.0% (1.7–14.4%)
• Depression: 26.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
• Diabetes: 14.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Jerusalem Church

• Seven Springs Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
• St Rest Holiness Church — 1.6 mi away
• Dalys Chapel — 1.6 mi away
• Seven Springs Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Seven Springs Iglesia Adventista del Septimo Dia Hispana — 1.9 mi away
• Rockford Chapel — 2 mi away in La Grange, NC
• Gradys Chapel — 2.1 mi away
• Holy Innocence Church — 2.7 mi away
• Holy Innocents Episcopal Church — 2.8 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Kinston, NC