Bethany United Methodist Church
Bethany United Methodist Church is a church in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 111 churches in Parkersburg.
Parkersburg, WV, 26101Bethany United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Bethany United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 56.7% (38.2–75.3%)
- Obesity: 50.0%
- Poverty Rate: 38.3% (27.8–48.8%)
- Depression: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Food Insecurity: 30.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 18.8% (11.4–26.3%)
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.
Churches near Bethany United Methodist Church
- Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Temple Evangelical Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- St. Patrick's Anglican Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Gospel Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away