Oak Grove AME Church

The community around Oak Grove AME Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Obesity: 50.3%
• Child Poverty: 48.9% (32.5–65.5%)
• Social Isolation: 40.8%
• Food Insecurity: 37.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
• Poverty Rate: 31.1% (21.0–41.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
• Diabetes: 22.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
• Unemployment: 8.9% (4.1–13.7%)
• Depression: 24.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Oak Grove AME Church

• Temple Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Orange Grove Church of God In Christ — 0.7 mi away
• Kentwood, First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Kentwood United Pentecostal — 0.8 mi away
• Lifeway Apostolic Church — 0.9 mi away
• Kentwood Assembly of God — 1 mi away
• Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Sweet Home Church — 1.3 mi away
• First Church — 2.6 mi away
• Growing In the Word Ministries — 2.7 mi away