Wards Church

The community around Wards Church

It takes 4.8 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 here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Depression: 30.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
• Poverty Rate: 23.4% (14.8–32.0%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.7% (9.9–27.5%)
• Diabetes: 16.7%
• Obesity: 38.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Wards Church

• Cherry Chapel — 1.8 mi away
• Mount Tabor Church — 2.3 mi away
• Plummer Church — 3.7 mi away
• Upper Holland Creek Church — 4.9 mi away
• Walnut Grove Church — 5 mi away
• Burnt Church — 5.1 mi away
• Union Church — 5.1 mi away
• Turkey Creek Church — 5.1 mi away
• Covey Chapel — 5.5 mi away
• Whites Creek Church — 5.6 mi away