Saint Marks Church

The community around Saint Marks Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 42.8% (25.4–60.1%)
• Unemployment: 20.4% (11.6–29.2%)
• Diabetes: 18.5%
• Obesity: 43.5%
• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
• Food Insecurity: 24.2%
• Poverty Rate: 23.4% (14.9–31.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%

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

Churches near Saint Marks Church

• St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Parish) — 0 mi away
• Grace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Community of Faith Global Methodist — 0.5 mi away
• Forest Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Jackson Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Visitation Catholic Mission — 1.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
• First Assembly of God Church — 1.4 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 1.5 mi away