Saint Martin Deporres Catholic Church
Saint Martin Deporres Catholic Church is a church in Gadsden, AL 35901. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden.
Gadsden, AL, 35901Saint Martin Deporres Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 210 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Alabama — 18,927 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 Martin Deporres Catholic 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. 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: 81.6%
- Obesity: 56.3%
- Poverty Rate: 49.6% (35.0–64.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 47.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.6%
- Diabetes: 27.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.8%
- Unemployment: 20.6% (7.7–33.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.7% (11.3–28.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
- Depression: 23.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Saint Martin Deporres Catholic Church
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Handy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grants Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic House of Prayer Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Rising Star AOH Church of God — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away