Saint Matthews Church

The community around Saint Matthews Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Obesity: 46.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
• Food Insecurity: 30.7%
• Diabetes: 20.1%
• Unemployment: 13.1% (5.4–20.8%)
• Social Isolation: 39.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
• Poverty Rate: 26.1% (15.6–36.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.0–17.5%)

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

Churches near Saint Matthews Church

• New Saint Mathew Church — 1.5 mi away
• Antioch African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.5 mi away
• Jones Chapel Methodist Protestant Church — 2.5 mi away
• Perry Chapel — 2.5 mi away
• Antioch Church — 2.6 mi away
• Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Rogers Chapel — 2.9 mi away
• Saint James Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mount Sinai Number 1 Church — 3.4 mi away
• Choctaw Bluff Church — 3.8 mi away