New Salem Church

The community around New Salem Church

It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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: 35.6% (17.5–53.6%)
• Depression: 27.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
• Poverty Rate: 22.0% (14.1–30.0%)
• Obesity: 39.3%
• Diabetes: 14.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near New Salem Church

• Bethlehem Church — 1.1 mi away in Mt Hermon, KY
• Free Will Church — 2 mi away
• Harmony Church — 2.1 mi away
• Flippin Church of Christ — 3.8 mi away
• Dover Church — 4.2 mi away in Glasgow, KY
• Philippi Church — 4.7 mi away
• Mount Vernon AME — 5 mi away in Gamaliel, KY
• Poplar Log Church — 5.5 mi away
• New Design Church — 5.6 mi away
• Athens Church — 5.7 mi away