East Salem Church

The community around East Salem Church

It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.4%
• Food Insecurity: 27.0%
• Unemployment: 20.3% (8.0–32.6%)
• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Poverty Rate: 25.0% (14.2–35.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (7.2–24.0%)
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Child Poverty: 23.9% (6.8–41.0%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near East Salem Church

• First Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• True Light Apostolic Outreach Center — 2.6 mi away
• New Hope Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Leakesville Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away
• Leakesville Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Apostolic Tabernacle — 2.8 mi away
• First United Pentecostal Church — 3 mi away
• Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 3 mi away
• Leakesville Missionary Baptist — 3 mi away
• First Assembly of God Church — 3.3 mi away