Watery Branch Fwb Church

The community around Watery Branch Fwb 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 about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 40.1%
• Child Poverty: 35.4% (20.4–50.4%)
• Social Isolation: 32.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
• Food Insecurity: 22.5%
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Depression: 24.3%
• Poverty Rate: 20.3% (13.2–27.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (8.5–17.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Watery Branch Fwb Church

• Diggs Chapel — 0.7 mi away
• Mount Calvary Church — 1.6 mi away
• Lebanon Church — 1.8 mi away
• Union Grove Church — 1.9 mi away
• Leventon Chapel Free Will Baptist — 2.1 mi away
• Hilly Branch — 2.6 mi away in Fremont, NC
• First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Heart of David Ministries — 2.8 mi away in Eureka, NC
• Stantonsburg Pentecostal Church — 2.9 mi away
• Eureka United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Eureka, NC