Park Place United Methodist Church
Park Place United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 500 34th Street in Norfolk, VA 23508. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 21 Methodist congregations in the city.
500 34th Street, Norfolk, VA, 23508Park Place United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 970 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Park Place United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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.
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Food Insecurity: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Child Poverty: 23.9% (11.7–38.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (11.6–25.1%)
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.0–17.3%)
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.6–11.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Park Place United Methodist Church
- Rose Of Sharon Revival Center — 0 mi away
- Norfolk Bible Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Park Place Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Knox Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Church Of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Memorial Spiritualist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Fellowship Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Mekane Hiwot Abune Gebre Menfes Kidus Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Colonial Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Ghent United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Paul CME — 1.4 mi away
- Larchmont United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away