Metropolitan Community Church

The community around Metropolitan Community Church

Within about a mile of this church, 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 children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 44.3% (25.1–63.4%)
• Social Isolation: 41.6%
• Food Insecurity: 35.3%
• Poverty Rate: 30.7% (19.1–42.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
• Diabetes: 19.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
• Obesity: 45.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
• Unemployment: 10.8% (3.1–18.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.

Churches near Metropolitan Community Church

• Eagles Nest Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
• Jackson Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
• Church of The Glorious Light of the Apostolic Faith — 0.1 mi away
• Woodlawn Deliverance Temple — 0.2 mi away
• South Woodlawn Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
• Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
• Williams Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
• New Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away