Shorter Chapel
Shorter Chapel is a church in Townsend, GA 31331. It is one of 33 churches in Townsend.
Townsend, GA, 31331Find Shorter Chapel on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Shorter Chapel
It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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.
- Poverty Rate: 32.8% (20.3–45.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Food Insecurity: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (6.2–17.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shorter Chapel
- Calvary Church — 1.3 mi away
- Church of God — 1.8 mi away
- Eulonia Church of God of Prophecy — 1.9 mi away
- Daniel Grove Church — 2 mi away
- Sams Memorial Church — 3 mi away
- New Homes Church — 3.2 mi away
- New Home Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- East Light Church — 3.3 mi away
- Bellville Church — 3.4 mi away
- Saint Marks Church — 3.4 mi away