Saint Hedwigs Catholic Church
Saint Hedwigs Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Akron, OH 44310. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 13 Catholic congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44310Shares a ministry location with St Hedwig's Church.
Saint Hedwigs Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 926 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Ohio — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Hedwigs Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (22.1–45.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 13.3% (5.3–21.3%)
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Child Poverty: 35.4% (16.1–55.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (8.2–24.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Saint Hedwigs Catholic Church
- St Hedwig's Church — 0 mi away
- St Anthony of Padua Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Anthonys Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chapel of the Transfiguration — 0.4 mi away
- Blessed Trinity — 0.4 mi away
- Shelton Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Elizabeth Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Thayer Street Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Holiness Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- St Martha's Church — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Anthonys Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Vincent de Paul Parish — 1 mi away
- St. Bernard Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- Citizens Akron — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away