Welch Church

The community around Welch Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half 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.

• Obesity: 45.6%
• Social Isolation: 34.9%
• Food Insecurity: 20.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
• Child Poverty: 23.9% (10.4–37.4%)
• Depression: 23.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
• Poverty Rate: 21.3% (12.8–29.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Diabetes: 13.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
• Unemployment: 7.0% (2.3–11.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Welch Church

• Richville Christian Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
• Richville United Church — 0.7 mi away
• Richville Baptist Chapel — 0.9 mi away
• Faith Bible Church — 2.7 mi away in Gouverneur, NY
• North Country Christian Fellowship — 2.8 mi away in Gouverneur, NY
• North Gouverneur Church — 3.3 mi away in Gouverneur, NY
• Mercy Point Church Gouverneur — 5.5 mi away in Gouverneur, NY
• Saint James Roman Catholic Church — 6 mi away in Gouverneur, NY
• Trinity Episcopal Church — 6 mi away in Gouverneur, NY
• First Church of Christ Scientist — 6.1 mi away in Gouverneur, NY