Esmen Church

The community around Esmen Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Social Isolation: 35.0%
• Obesity: 38.7%
• Child Poverty: 26.7% (9.2–44.1%)
• Depression: 23.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
• Food Insecurity: 18.6%
• Poverty Rate: 17.9% (10.8–25.1%)
• Diabetes: 13.5%

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

Churches near Esmen Church

• Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 3.3 mi away in Pontiac, IL
• Community Lutheran Church — 4.4 mi away in Cornell, IL
• New Life Christian Church — 4.6 mi away in Cornell, IL
• Cornell United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Cornell, IL
• Truth Tabernacle — 6 mi away in Pontiac, IL
• Restoration Church of Pontiac — 6 mi away in Pontiac, IL
• Church of Christ — 6.1 mi away in Pontiac, IL
• Christian Fellowship-Pontiac — 6.1 mi away in Pontiac, IL
• Pontiac Church of God — 6.1 mi away in Pontiac, IL
• Authentic Church — 6.2 mi away in Pontiac, IL