Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 532 Market Street in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 121 churches in Parkersburg, and one of 2 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
532 Market Street, Parkersburg, WV, 26101Phone: +1 304-422-6786 · Website: https://www.stx-pburg.org/
Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 151 congregations of the Catholic family gather across West Virginia — 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 Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 48.1%
- Depression: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Child Poverty: 31.6% (19.0–44.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.6% (18.9–36.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (6.1–18.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.
Churches near Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
- High On Hope Ministries — 0 mi away
- Downtown Bethel House of God — 0 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Logan Memorial United Methodist — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Patrick's Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Temple Evangelical Church — 0.3 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Margaret Mary Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Michael Catholic Church — 5.5 mi away in Vienna, WV
- St Ambrose Catholic Church — 5.9 mi away in Little Hocking, OH
- Pinehurst Christian Church — 10.3 mi away in Marietta, OH
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