Saint Gerards Catholic Church
Saint Gerards Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 6 Catholic congregations in the city.
Roanoke, VA, 24016Saint Gerards Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 297 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Virginia — 18,927 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 Gerards Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 37.3%
- Poverty Rate: 35.4% (21.9–48.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 22.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (3.6–16.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (5.6–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Saint Gerards Catholic Church
- Guiding Star New Day Ministries COGIC — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sweet Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Maple Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Melrose Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Paradise Cathedral — 0.4 mi away
- Melrose United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bibleway Pentecostal Apostolic Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Basilica of St. Andrew — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Elias Roman Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Our Lady of Nazareth Roman Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away
- St. Elias Maronite Catholic Church — 3.4 mi away