Anchor Church

The community around Anchor Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 49.6% (35.4–63.9%)
• Poverty Rate: 33.2% (24.3–42.1%)
• Obesity: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 38.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
• Food Insecurity: 22.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0% (12.8–23.2%)
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Depression: 24.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

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

Churches near Anchor Church

• Wesleys Chapel — 1.1 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 1.2 mi away
• Mt Zion Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Galilee Church — 1.6 mi away
• Providence Church — 1.7 mi away
• Canaan Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Mount Hermon Presbyterian Church — 2.8 mi away in Ila, GA
• Ila Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Ila, GA
• Tabor Chapel — 3.1 mi away
• Hudson River Church — 3.2 mi away in Commerce, GA