Avalon Park Community Church
Avalon Park Community Church is a church at 8100 S Dante Ave in Chicago, IL 60619-4642. It is one of 3,017 churches in Chicago.
Community Renewal Society informs and brings people of faith and congregations together, in partnership with communities, coalitions, interfaith organizations and civic leaders, to intentionally and decisively transform society toward greater social justice at the intersection of racism and poverty.
8100 S Dante Ave, Chicago, IL, 60619-4642Phone: +17737213988 · Website: https://www.communityrenewalsociety.org/events/avalonpark-community-church-uccwomens-day
Shares a ministry location with United Church of Christ.
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The community around Avalon Park Community 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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,300 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.
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (3.3–22.8%)
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (8.1–28.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Avalon Park Community Church
- United Church of Christ — 0 mi away
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- The House Of Refuge ACOG — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah and Saint Bartholomew Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- FTBC — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Black Methodist for Church Renewal — 0.3 mi away
- Haven of Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philadelphia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Felicitas Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away