Lawton Heights United Methodist Church
Lawton Heights United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Lawton, OK 73507. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
Lawton, OK, 73507Lawton Heights United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 408 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Oklahoma — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Lawton Heights United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 48.8%
- Food Insecurity: 34.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (20.3–41.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.4% (13.5–27.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (6.8–19.1%)
- Child Poverty: 38.7% (21.0–56.4%)
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lawton city is served by 125 churches — about one congregation for every 603 residents.
Churches near Lawton Heights United Methodist Church
- Northside Southern Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Side Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lawton Heights Church-Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Lawton Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mind of Christ Church Multiethnic — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- South Church — 0.6 mi away
- Nanurie Church PCA — 0.6 mi away
- Liberty Heights Church — 0.7 mi away
- Liberty Heights Chapel — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- St. Paul's United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.6 mi away
- Davis Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.2 mi away