Salem UCC

The community around Salem UCC

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Depression: 24.2%
• Child Poverty: 22.1% (9.5–34.9%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
• Poverty Rate: 16.3% (9.2–23.3%)
• Diabetes: 13.3%
• Unemployment: 8.0% (3.6–12.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Weatherly borough is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 549 residents.

Churches near Salem UCC

• Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
• Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Weatherly Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
• Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
• Old Calendar Greek Orthodox Church — 0.7 mi away
• Saint Joseph Church — 3.7 mi away
• Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal MI — 4.8 mi away in Beaver Meadows, PA
• Saints Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Church — 4.9 mi away in Beaver Meadows, PA