Salem United Methodist Church
Salem United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Opelika, AL 36804. It is one of 124 churches in Opelika, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Opelika, AL, 36804Salem United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Salem United Methodist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%
- Food Insecurity: 15.0%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.5–18.7%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (0.6–14.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Salem United Methodist Church
- Pleasant View Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Salem, AL
- New Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Chapel AME Church — 1 mi away in Salem, AL
- Eastside Emmanuel Church — 2.8 mi away
- Concord Church — 3 mi away in Salem, AL
- Ridge Grove Church — 3.1 mi away
- Mountain Springs Church — 3.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill AME Church — 3.5 mi away in Salem, AL
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- UGBChurch — 4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Antioch Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Salem, AL
- Morris Chapel United Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Ferguson Christian Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 8.4 mi away
- Union Grove United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Smiths Station, AL
- Beulah United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Valley, AL