Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 2400 7th Avenue North in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer, and one of 2 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
2400 7th Avenue North, Bessemer, AL, 35020Website: https://www.bhmdiocese.org/parishes/detail/jefferson/46
Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 210 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Alabama — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 75.5%
- Obesity: 51.6%
- Food Insecurity: 49.5%
- Poverty Rate: 43.4% (28.4–58.5%)
- Social Isolation: 43.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.0%
- Diabetes: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (1.7–17.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.7–19.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Spiritual Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Perry Chapel Mission Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Restoration Revival Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Porters Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- UNITY CME Church - Bessemer — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Peter Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 5.2 mi away in Fairfield, AL
- St Alban's Episcopal Church — 6.1 mi away in Hoover, AL
- St. Luke Korean Catholic Church — 6.2 mi away in Hoover, AL
- Prince of Peace Catholic Church — 6.4 mi away in Hoover, AL