Salem Church

The community around Salem Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 40.7% (22.0–59.4%)
• Diabetes: 20.4%
• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Poverty Rate: 22.5% (11.4–33.7%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.8% (9.1–22.4%)
• Unemployment: 9.2% (1.8–16.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

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

Churches near Salem Church

• Saint Lukes Church — 0.2 mi away
• Celebration Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Faceville Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Faceville Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Emanuel Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Stevens Church — 3.7 mi away
• Sylvania United Methodist Church — 4 mi away
• Hannatown Church — 4 mi away
• Ministerio Hispano Nueva Vida — 4.3 mi away
• Franklin Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away