Visitation Catholic Church
Visitation Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Des Moines, IA 50316. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 10 Catholic congregations in the city.
Des Moines, IA, 50316Shares a ministry location with Our Lady of The Americas.
Visitation Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 442 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Iowa — 18,926 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 Visitation Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Food Insecurity: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Child Poverty: 31.9% (15.8–47.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.6% (15.6–39.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (9.1–25.5%)
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (2.1–15.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near Visitation Catholic Church
- Our Lady of The Americas — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Cristiana Espiritual — 0.2 mi away
- River of Life Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Asian Church of the Open Bible — 0.3 mi away
- Evangelistic Missionary Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Divine Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Ambrose Cathedral — 1.4 mi away
- Basilica of Saint John — 1.9 mi away
- Saint Anthony's Church — 2.1 mi away
- St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church and Student Center — 2.5 mi away