Toxaway United Methodist Church
Toxaway United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1212 East Whitner Street in Anderson, SC 29624. It is one of 217 churches in Anderson, and one of 7 United Methodist congregations in the city.
1212 East Whitner Street, Anderson, SC, 29624Toxaway United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 25,985 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 Toxaway 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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 60.9% (42.7–79.2%)
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Food Insecurity: 40.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6% (21.6–45.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (9.1–28.0%)
- Unemployment: 10.1% (2.5–18.3%)
- Depression: 25.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Anderson city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Toxaway United Methodist Church
- Anderson - First SDA Church — 0.2 mi away
- Riverside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Philadelphia Center — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- United House of Prayer — 0.6 mi away
- River Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Divine Worship Assembly — 0.6 mi away
- Royal Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Thompson Centennial Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Orrville United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
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