Sweetwater Grove Church

The community around Sweetwater Grove Church

It takes 2.9 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Child Poverty: 49.9% (31.6–68.1%)
• Obesity: 46.0%
• Poverty Rate: 36.7% (26.5–47.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 36.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
• Diabetes: 20.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
• Unemployment: 13.1% (4.1–22.1%)
• Social Isolation: 36.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 24.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (7.5–14.9%)

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

Churches near Sweetwater Grove Church

• Red Branch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Barnwell Church of Christ — 1.7 mi away
• Ned Branch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Life Tabernacle Church — 1.9 mi away
• Bethany Church — 2.5 mi away
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Seven Pines Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Snelling, SC
• Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles — 2.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Barnwell United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away