Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church

Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in Fort Payne, AL 35967. It is one of 76 churches in Fort Payne.

Fort Payne, AL, 35967

Website: http://www.olvfortpayne.com/

Our Lady of the Valley 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 Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 34.7%
  • Child Poverty: 30.3% (14.8–45.9%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.5%
  • Diabetes: 15.0%
  • Obesity: 38.1%
  • Depression: 25.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.4% (11.7–29.1%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (7.0–19.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
  • Unemployment: 6.6% (0.8–12.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Fort Payne city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.

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