Penn Branch Church

The community around Penn Branch Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 28.6%
• Diabetes: 20.0%
• Obesity: 42.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
• Social Isolation: 31.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
• Child Poverty: 27.4% (9.6–45.2%)
• Depression: 23.3%
• Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.9–27.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Penn Branch Church

• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Swansea First Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• North United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
• North United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
• Saint James Church — 2.1 mi away
• St. Mark United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Saint Mark Church — 2.3 mi away
• Maloney Church — 2.4 mi away
• Salem Church — 2.5 mi away