Saint Thomas Episcopal Church
Saint Thomas Episcopal Church is a church in Salem, IL 62881. It is one of 40 churches in Salem.
Salem, IL, 62881Saint Thomas Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 147 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Illinois — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint Thomas Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Child Poverty: 30.5% (13.7–47.2%)
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (14.3–28.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Salem city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 274 residents.
Churches near Saint Thomas Episcopal Church
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Theresa of Avila Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wesleyan Bible Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ohio Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Broadway Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 11.8 mi away in Centralia, IL
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 21.4 mi away in Mount Vernon, IL