Saint Marks Church

The community around Saint Marks Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 65.3%
• Obesity: 45.4%
• Poverty Rate: 40.7%
• Food Insecurity: 40.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.1%
• Diabetes: 20.1%
• Social Isolation: 39.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 20.2%
• Depression: 23.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Marks Church

• Mount Carmel Church — 1.8 mi away
• Mt Zion Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Youth Fellowship (C.B.Y.F.) — 2.1 mi away
• First United Pentecostal Church — 2.1 mi away
• Pittman Street Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Immanuel Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Jackson St Church Of Christ — 2.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away