St Benedict's Church

The community around St Benedict's Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Social Isolation: 32.2%
• Unemployment: 8.1% (5.9–10.4%)
• Child Poverty: 23.3% (14.3–32.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%
• Poverty Rate: 17.7%

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

Churches near St Benedict's Church

• Wesleyan Church — 0.2 mi away
• Odessa United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Odessa Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Bethel Fellowship Church — 2.4 mi away in Montour Falls, NY
• Montour Falls United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in Montour Falls, NY
• First Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Montour Falls, NY
• Lawrence Memorial Chapel — 3.5 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 4.3 mi away in Montour Falls, NY
• Alpine Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Alpine, NY
• Saint Mary of the Lake Roman Catholic Church — 5 mi away in Watkins Glen, NY