Welchs Chapel

The community around Welchs Chapel

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Child Poverty: 35.3% (17.0–53.6%)
• Social Isolation: 33.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Depression: 25.4%
• Food Insecurity: 19.3%
• Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.0–23.9%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (7.7–16.4%)
• Unemployment: 6.2% (1.9–10.4%)

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

Churches near Welchs Chapel

• Faith Fellowship Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Ballards Bridge Church — 1.3 mi away
• Happy Home Church — 2.5 mi away
• White Oak Church — 3.1 mi away in Edenton, NC
• Bandon Chapel — 4.2 mi away in Edenton, NC
• Center Hill Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 4.4 mi away
• Center Hill Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
• Chappells Hill Church — 4.6 mi away
• Warwick Church — 4.6 mi away