Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 47.5% (31.8–63.2%)
• Poverty Rate: 30.8% (21.7–40.0%)
• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
• Food Insecurity: 23.8%
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Depression: 25.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

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

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Mount Nebo Church — 1.5 mi away
• Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Paran Primitive Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Pleasant Grove CME — 2 mi away
• Troy Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Providence Church — 2.6 mi away
• New Jerusalem Holiness Church — 2.8 mi away in Brundidge, AL
• First Independent All Nation Gospel Holy Church — 2.8 mi away
• Fountain of Life Church — 3.1 mi away
• Cornerstone of Life Church — 3.1 mi away