Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 33.0% (14.2–51.8%)
• Social Isolation: 32.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 21.8%
• Diabetes: 17.4%
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Depression: 23.1%
• Poverty Rate: 18.3% (9.1–27.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Mountain Creek Church — 1.8 mi away
• Sandridge Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Ninety Six, SC
• Spring Branch Church — 3.2 mi away
• Sand Ridge Church — 3.2 mi away in Ninety Six, SC
• Flint Hill Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Saluda, SC
• Friendship Church — 3.7 mi away in Saluda, SC
• Antioch Church — 3.8 mi away in Saluda, SC
• Pine Grove Pentecostal Holiness Church — 5.1 mi away in Edgefield, SC
• Springfield Church — 5.4 mi away in Edgefield, SC