St Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center
St Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center is a Catholic church at 2210 Lincoln Way in Ames, IA 50014. It is one of 61 churches in Ames.
2210 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA, 50014St Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 443 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Iowa — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 78.5%
- Social Isolation: 46.1%
- Food Insecurity: 36.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (7.5–17.9%)
- Depression: 31.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Ames city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,594 residents.
Churches near St Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center
- Memorial Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ames — 0.1 mi away
- University Lutheran Center — 0.1 mi away
- Buster Pro 2024 T61 — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's by the Campus Episcopal Church of Ames — 0.2 mi away
- International Outreach Inc — 0.3 mi away
- Collegiate United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Campus Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Collegiate Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Birth Baptist Church - Ames, IA — 0.6 mi away
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