New Life West Blocton Church

The community around New Life West Blocton Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Unemployment: 16.0% (8.5–23.5%)
• Obesity: 42.6%
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
• Food Insecurity: 21.5%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Child Poverty: 22.0% (9.4–34.6%)
• Poverty Rate: 16.2% (9.1–23.4%)
• Diabetes: 14.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (7.0–19.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

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

Churches near New Life West Blocton Church

• West Blocton First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Smith Hill Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Blocton Third Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• West Blocton church of Christ — 1.5 mi away
• New Hebron Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Lowerytown Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• McCulley Hill Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away