Herring Avenue United Methodist Church
Herring Avenue United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Waco, TX 76708. It is one of 275 churches in Waco, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
Waco, TX, 76708Shares a ministry location with St. Paul AME Church.
Herring Avenue United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Herring Avenue United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 50.5% (31.1–69.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 39.1% (27.4–50.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1% (13.6–26.5%)
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (2.8–13.9%)
- Depression: 23.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waco city is served by 124 churches — about one congregation for every 1,084 residents.
Churches near Herring Avenue United Methodist Church
- St. Paul AME Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Assoc — 0.4 mi away
- Victory In Praise Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Christian Tabernacle Church — 0.5 mi away
- North Waco Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Loving Kindness Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- North 10th and Colcord Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Living Witness Missionary Church — 0.8 mi away