Wilkes Chapel

The community around Wilkes Chapel

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Obesity: 43.8%
• Social Isolation: 32.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
• Poverty Rate: 23.5% (14.7–32.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.3%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Depression: 25.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (6.9–22.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (0.0–15.4%)

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

Churches near Wilkes Chapel

• Church of God — 1.1 mi away
• Middendorf Church of the Living God — 1.9 mi away
• Ousley Dale Church — 2.1 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 2.5 mi away in Patrick, SC
• Cedar Creek Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Patrick, SC
• New Zion Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Middendorf Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Prospect Church — 3.5 mi away
• Brown Springs Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Patrick, SC
• Patrick Presbyterian Church — 4.2 mi away in Patrick, SC