Murphy AME Church
Murphy AME Church is a African_methodist_episcopal church at 700 Yarnall Street in Chester, PA 19013. It is one of 108 churches in Chester.
700 Yarnall Street, Chester, PA, 19013Phone: +1 610-874-2110
Murphy AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Murphy AME 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 64.1% (45.1–83.1%)
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Poverty Rate: 40.5% (26.4–54.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (3.4–19.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chester city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 384 residents.
Churches near Murphy AME Church
- Macedonia Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul Original Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Torre De Fuego — 0.2 mi away
- St Mary's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Anointed Full Gospel Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Eternal Hope of Glory — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Culture Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Peter's Church — 0.3 mi away