Alford Heights Church

The community around Alford Heights Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 47.7%
• Poverty Rate: 31.8% (22.0–41.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 31.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
• Diabetes: 19.1%
• Child Poverty: 38.8% (22.0–55.7%)
• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
• Depression: 26.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
• Unemployment: 7.0% (0.1–13.8%)

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

Churches near Alford Heights Church

• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
• Many Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
• Wayside Temple Church of God — 0.9 mi away
• The Life Church — 1 mi away
• Bethel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Many Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
• New Jerusalem Baptist Churc — 1.4 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
• First Methodist Church of Many — 1.4 mi away
• Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away