Salem Church

The community around Salem Church

It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.

• Obesity: 40.6%
• Social Isolation: 39.0%
• Food Insecurity: 22.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
• Depression: 23.5%
• Poverty Rate: 20.1% (11.0–29.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
• Diabetes: 13.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (4.3–19.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Salem Church

• Mount Cilla Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Harmony Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Midway Church — 3.6 mi away in Eastman, GA
• Mount Marriah Church — 3.7 mi away
• New Bethel Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Eastman, GA
• Antioch No. 1 Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Eastman, GA
• Piney Grove Church — 5.3 mi away
• Sandridge Church — 5.3 mi away
• New Zion Church — 5.4 mi away in Cochran, GA
• Friendship Church — 5.4 mi away in Eastman, GA