Bethel AME Church

The community around Bethel AME Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third 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: 41.8% (24.6–59.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.5%
• Diabetes: 19.7%
• Unemployment: 13.8% (6.6–21.1%)
• Obesity: 44.4%
• Poverty Rate: 28.4% (19.5–37.4%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (9.9–23.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethel AME Church

• First Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
• Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
• Little Flock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Independent MBC — 0.3 mi away
• St. Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
• Crossroads Community Church — 0.4 mi away
• Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Progressive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Victory Church of Brazos Valley — 0.5 mi away