Howell Swamp Church

The community around Howell Swamp Church

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.1% (13.3–28.8%)
• Obesity: 41.5%
• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
• Food Insecurity: 23.7%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Child Poverty: 28.9% (10.9–47.0%)
• Depression: 25.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
• Unemployment: 6.4% (1.8–10.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Howell Swamp Church

• Holy Temple Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
• Saint Delight Church — 0.3 mi away
• Walstonburg Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
• Tabernacle Church — 1.9 mi away in Stantonsburg, NC
• Holy Temple Church — 2.1 mi away
• Meadow Church — 2.3 mi away
• Tabernacle Church — 2.3 mi away in Stantonsburg, NC
• Paul's Chapel Church — 2.8 mi away
• Spring Branch Church — 3.7 mi away
• Zecharias Zion Church — 3.8 mi away