Allen Temple AME Church

The community around Allen Temple AME Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 51.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
• Diabetes: 22.0%
• Unemployment: 20.7% (10.8–30.7%)
• Poverty Rate: 28.0% (13.3–42.8%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (7.3–21.3%)

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

Churches near Allen Temple AME Church

• First Institutional Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• New Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Mount Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Bcog Lake Wales — 0.4 mi away
• Connections Community Church — 0.4 mi away
• Lake Wales SDA Church — 0.4 mi away
• Iglesia Kadosh Adonai — 0.5 mi away
• Faith Temple Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
• Highpoint Church — 0.7 mi away
• Church of God-Burns Ave — 0.7 mi away