New Salem Church

The community around New Salem Church

It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Diabetes: 18.5%
• Obesity: 43.3%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Child Poverty: 34.5% (18.2–50.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
• Poverty Rate: 25.7% (16.3–35.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (8.6–22.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

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

Churches near New Salem Church

• Pleasant Hill Free Will Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• South Mount Zion Church of God — 3 mi away
• Shiloh M.B. Church — 3.4 mi away
• Union Primitive Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Union Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• South Mount Zion Church — 3.8 mi away
• Colquitt Assembly of God — 3.8 mi away
• New Home Freewill Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Colquitt Freewill Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away