Saint Martin de Porres Catholic Church
Saint Martin de Porres Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Weslaco, TX 78596. It is one of 56 churches in Weslaco.
Weslaco, TX, 78596Website: http://smdpcs.com
Saint Martin de Porres Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,262 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Texas — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Martin de Porres Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 50.6% (32.9–68.3%)
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 42.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.8%
- Poverty Rate: 31.0% (18.7–43.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.4% (21.6–37.1%)
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (1.9–14.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Weslaco city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 2,378 residents.
Churches near Saint Martin de Porres Catholic Church
- New Hope of Weslaco — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Las Palmas — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church of Weslaco — 0.3 mi away
- Virgen De San Juan Del Valle San Juan, Texas — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Calvario de Weslaco — 0.5 mi away
- St Joan of Arc Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- IEI Templo Camino De Salvacion — 0.6 mi away
- La Santisima Trinidad Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Weslaco LST — 0.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St Joan of Arc Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Pius X Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 3.2 mi away in Donna, TX
- Holy Spirit Catholic Church — 5.7 mi away in Progreso, TX
- St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus Catholic Church — 8.9 mi away in Edcouch, TX