Saint Marks Church

The community around Saint Marks Church

It takes 2.8 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Obesity: 44.4%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
• Food Insecurity: 24.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
• Diabetes: 15.4%
• Child Poverty: 28.0% (8.2–47.8%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.0% (8.0–33.9%)
• Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
• Unemployment: 7.8% (1.5–14.3%)

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

North Little Rock city is served by 116 churches — about one congregation for every 501 residents.

Churches near Saint Marks Church

• Saint Joe Church — 1.5 mi away
• Living Hope Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Upper Room Ministries — 2.3 mi away
• Church At Willow Beach — 2.6 mi away
• Grace Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Scott, AR
• Saint Paul Church — 2.9 mi away in Scott, AR
• New Light Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Bailey Church — 3.4 mi away in Scott, AR
• Bethany Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• McAlmont Church of Christ — 3.7 mi away