Elm Park Methodist Church
Elm Park Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Scranton, PA 18510. It is one of 88 churches in Scranton, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Scranton, PA, 18510Website: http://www.elmparkscranton.org/
Elm Park Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Elm Park Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 44.8% (32.8–56.8%)
- Depression: 28.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Child Poverty: 26.0% (6.2–45.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Scranton city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 2,306 residents.
Churches near Elm Park Methodist Church
- Reformed Baptist Church of Scranton — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Matthew's United Evangelical Lutheran — 0.2 mi away
- Madonna Della Strada Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Nicholas Orthodox Greek Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter's Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Manse;Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away