Emelle Church

The community around Emelle Church

It takes 6.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 56.4%
• Social Isolation: 40.6%
• Food Insecurity: 31.1%
• Obesity: 44.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
• Poverty Rate: 27.8% (17.8–37.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.3–17.4%)
• Unemployment: 7.5% (1.3–14.0%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Emelle Church

• Dawsey Church — 1.1 mi away in Geiger, AL
• Bethel Church — 2.2 mi away in Geiger, AL
• West Union Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Geiger, AL
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Mary Winston Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Geiger, AL
• Saint Peters Church — 2.7 mi away in Geiger, AL
• Sun Light Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Brown Chapel — 3.5 mi away in Geiger, AL
• New Bethel Church — 4.3 mi away in Geiger, AL
• Sumterville Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Geiger, AL