Brake Church

The community around Brake Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Obesity: 44.4%
• Social Isolation: 32.7%
• Depression: 29.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Food Insecurity: 17.2%
• Poverty Rate: 17.2% (12.4–22.0%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
• Unemployment: 7.1% (1.9–12.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Brake Church

• North Mill Creek Church — 1 mi away
• Boot Hill Church — 2.1 mi away
• South Branch Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Grace Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away
• Saint Mary Catholic Church — 2.4 mi away
• Grove Street United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
• 'The Rock' Petersburg Church of God — 2.4 mi away
• Presbyterian Church Petersburg — 2.5 mi away
• Church of God — 2.5 mi away