Oakdale United Methodist Church
Oakdale United Methodist Church is a church in Florence, AL 35630. It is one of 211 churches in Florence.
Florence, AL, 35630Oakdale United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Oakdale United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Food Insecurity: 27.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.1% (14.2–32.0%)
- Depression: 27.5%
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (15.9–38.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (0.4–13.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Florence city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 481 residents.
Churches near Oakdale United Methodist Church
- Oakdale Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Vision United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Old Brick Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America — 0.6 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Salvation Army Church — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Christ Methodist — 1 mi away
- Nichols Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Greater Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Edgemont United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away