South River Friends Meetinghouse
South River Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker church at 5810 Fort Avenue in Lynchburg, VA 24502. It is one of 244 churches in Lynchburg.
5810 Fort Avenue, Lynchburg, VA, 24502Website: https://www.virginia.org/listings/historicsites/southrivermeetinghouse
South River Friends Meetinghouse is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around South River Friends Meetinghouse
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (0.0–17.7%)
- Obesity: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lynchburg city is served by 135 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near South River Friends Meetinghouse
- Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fort Avenue Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sandusky Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chestnut Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Assembly — 0.6 mi away
- Anchor Church — 0.7 mi away
- HiliFavrd Ministries Inc — 0.7 mi away
- Unity in the Seven Hills Church — 0.9 mi away