Elm Avenue Methodist Church
Elm Avenue Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1701 Elm Avenue in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
1701 Elm Avenue, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Elm Avenue Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Elm Avenue Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Food Insecurity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 36.1% (21.1–51.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 24.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (3.8–20.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Elm Avenue Methodist Church
- Saint James Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prentiss Park Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Beginnings Christian Outreach Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Elm Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jackson Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Centennial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God & True Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Light Church of Deliverance — 0.4 mi away
- Portsmouth Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away