Olivers Chapel

The community around Olivers Chapel

It takes 10.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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: 56.6% (38.1–75.2%)
• Obesity: 47.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
• Food Insecurity: 29.8%
• Diabetes: 22.3%
• Unemployment: 12.5% (2.2–23.2%)
• Social Isolation: 37.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
• Poverty Rate: 20.3% (11.9–28.8%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Olivers Chapel

• Barnes Church — 1.3 mi away
• Saint Francis Church — 1.8 mi away
• Mount Sinai Church — 3 mi away
• New Hope Church — 3.1 mi away
• Saint Matthews Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Indian Springs Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Saint John Church — 4.9 mi away
• McWilliams Church — 4.9 mi away
• Second Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Camden, AL
• McWilliams Church — 5 mi away