Community Needs Analysis

Do you have a vision for reaching out to the neediest communities in your area? Would you like to know which communities around your church have the greatest overall needs? Do you have a special ministry in mind, such as providing positive role models for children in single-parent families, but want to know where your efforts might be best directed?

Community needs analysis helps the church plan to use its resources in the most effective way possible to meet the most pressing needs in the community. By highlighting the communities around the church that have the greatest needs, needs analysis shows the church where it can use its resources for the greatest good.

Overall maps of "need" in the area provide a useful starting point. Taking into account a wide range of need indicators, including unemployment, poverty, divorce, separation, and single-parent families, our need analysis shows which neighbourhoods in your area have the greatest needs in the broadest sense.

Going from there, our needs analysis also highlights neighbourhoods that have specific kinds of needs.