Salem Church

The community around Salem Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 32.0% (13.6–50.4%)
• Depression: 30.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Obesity: 38.7%
• Social Isolation: 31.4%
• Poverty Rate: 16.9% (10.2–23.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%

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

Churches near Salem Church

• Bowman United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Glen Easton United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Nauvoo Church — 1.9 mi away in Cameron, WV
• Rosbys Rock Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away in Moundsville, WV
• Fork Ridge Church — 3.6 mi away
• Fork Ridge Church — 3.7 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.8 mi away in Cameron, WV
• Church of Christ — 3.9 mi away in Cameron, WV
• Shepherd United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Cameron, WV
• Lynn Camp United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away