First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African_methodist_episcopal_zion church in Knoxville, TN 37915. It is one of 582 churches in Knoxville, and one of 3 African_methodist_episcopal_zion congregations in the city.
Knoxville, TN, 37915First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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: 47.3% (32.1–62.6%)
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Poverty Rate: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Depression: 32.4%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.0–18.7%)
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.9–13.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- CRC Knox — 0.3 mi away
- Overcoming Believers Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Refuge Praise Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away