Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 2121 South Rural Road in Tempe, AZ 85282. It is one of 122 churches in Tempe, and one of 2 Catholic congregations in the city.
2121 South Rural Road, Tempe, AZ, 85282Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 277 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Arizona — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.1% (10.1–24.2%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (3.1–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Tempe city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 4,386 residents.
Churches near Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church
- The Door Christian Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Great Commission Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Augustine's Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Guardian Angels Catholic Community — 0.6 mi away
- Community Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- University Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Church of Tempe — 0.6 mi away
- Word & Faith Church — 0.7 mi away
- University Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Guardian Angels Catholic Community — 0.6 mi away
- All Saints Catholic Newman Center — 1.3 mi away
- City of the Lord — 1.8 mi away
- Resurrection Catholic Church — 2.6 mi away
- Holy Spirit Catholic Church — 2.8 mi away