New Shady Grove Church
New Shady Grove Church is a church in Selma, AL 36701. It is one of 155 churches in Selma.
Selma, AL, 36701Find New Shady Grove Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around New Shady Grove Church
It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 65.5% (48.7–82.4%)
- Obesity: 45.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.2%
- Food Insecurity: 31.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.7% (21.2–40.2%)
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (3.9–22.0%)
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Shady Grove Church
- New Center Church — 1 mi away
- Harper Chapel — 2.2 mi away
- Elbethel Church — 2.5 mi away
- Pernell Church — 2.8 mi away
- New Morning Star Church — 2.8 mi away
- Saint James Church — 2.8 mi away
- New Pernell Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Marion Junction, AL
- Pisgah Church — 3.3 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
- Ocmulgee Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away