Wayside Church

The community around Wayside Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third 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.

• Social Isolation: 39.2%
• Food Insecurity: 23.8%
• Obesity: 38.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
• Depression: 24.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Poverty Rate: 16.9% (9.4–24.4%)
• Diabetes: 13.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.9–17.0%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Wayside Church

• Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
• Liberty Chapel United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• St John Progressive Church — 2 mi away
• Bowers Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Life Tabernacle — 2.6 mi away
• Greater Vision Tabernacle — 2.6 mi away
• Bethel Church — 2.7 mi away
• Kingdom Builders Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Friendship Church — 3.4 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.5 mi away