Second Salem Church

The community around Second Salem Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Social Isolation: 41.5%
• Food Insecurity: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.4% (19.1–33.6%)
• Diabetes: 20.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
• Obesity: 43.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
• Unemployment: 10.2% (3.4–17.1%)
• Child Poverty: 27.2% (10.4–44.1%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.9% (13.8–30.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Second Salem Church

• Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• First Salem Church — 0.2 mi away
• Travelers Rest Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
• New Vision Tabernacle — 1 mi away
• Montezuma Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• First United Holiness Church — 1.4 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
• Magnolia Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away