Saint Thomas Catholic Church
Saint Thomas Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Arvin, CA 93203. It is one of 11 churches in Arvin.
Arvin, CA, 93203Website: http://dioceseoffresno.org/deaneries/kern-inyo/stthomasarvin.php
Saint Thomas Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,403 congregations of the Catholic family gather across California — 18,933 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 Saint Thomas Catholic Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 51.9% (36.3–67.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 49.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.9% (25.2–46.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 33.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (8.1–18.1%)
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (6.7–18.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Arvin city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 448 residents.
Churches near Saint Thomas Catholic Church
- Calvary Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Assembly of God Church of Arvin — 0.2 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Arvin Bilingual SDA Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle of Arvin — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of Arvin — 0.6 mi away
- Bright Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Arvin Wesleyan Church — 0.8 mi away
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