Salem Church

The community around Salem Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Child Poverty: 40.3% (22.9–58.6%)
• Poverty Rate: 35.3% (24.3–46.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
• Diabetes: 18.8%
• Obesity: 44.0%
• Depression: 28.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (7.5–17.5%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Salem Church

• Baise Chapel — 1.4 mi away
• Holy Cross Catholic Church — 2.3 mi away
• Burkesville Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• First Christian Church — 2.7 mi away
• Centerpoint Church of the Nazarene — 3.1 mi away
• Parrish Chapel — 3.5 mi away
• Spark Chapel — 4.1 mi away
• Living Word Ministries — 4.1 mi away
• Dutch Creek Church — 4.6 mi away
• Liberty Church — 4.7 mi away