Sweet Gum Church
Sweet Gum Church is a church in Shorter, AL 36075. It is one of 19 churches in Shorter.
Shorter, AL, 36075Find Sweet Gum Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Sweet Gum Church
It takes 5.1 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: 48.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Food Insecurity: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Child Poverty: 35.5% (18.5–52.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (2.3–19.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.1% (10.9–27.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sweet Gum Church
- Union Church — 2 mi away in Tuskegee, AL
- Mount Pleasant Church — 2.4 mi away
- Bradford Chapel — 2.5 mi away in Tuskegee, AL
- Bethel Church — 2.7 mi away in Tuskegee, AL
- La Place Church — 2.7 mi away
- Nebraska Church — 3 mi away
- Sweet Canaan Church — 3.1 mi away in Tuskegee, AL
- Bethel Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Calabee Church — 3.3 mi away
- Divine Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away