Tom Bulten, "Community and Propinquity of Church Members," Christian Scholars Review 31.4, 2002

SAMPLE CONGREGATIONS, CONCENTRATED AND DISPERSED, PLUS PEARSON'S PRODUCT MOMENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS

As expected, congregations exhibited a variety of spatial patterns. Figure 1 shows a sample of concentrated congregations, the members of which lived relatively near to one another. The median member of the most spatially concentrated or propinquitous congregation lived only 0.63 miles from the center of the congregation. Other congregations were more widely dispersed as shown in Figure 2.