St Brigid's Church
St Brigid's Church is a Roman Catholic church at 122 North Pleasant Street in Amherst Town, MA 01002. It is one of 12 churches in Amherst Town.
122 North Pleasant Street, Amherst Town, MA, 01002Website: https://saintbrigidsamherst.org/
St Brigid's Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 390 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Massachusetts — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St Brigid's Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Poverty Rate: 31.7% (22.5–41.2%)
- Depression: 29.3%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (3.4–15.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Amherst Town city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 2,568 residents.
Churches near St Brigid's Church
- Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst — 0.1 mi away in Amherst, MA
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hope Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church Amherst — 0.3 mi away in Amherst, MA
- MERCYhouse — 0.4 mi away in Amherst, MA
- First Baptist Church of Amherst — 0.4 mi away
- Mercy House — 0.4 mi away in Amherst, MA
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Goodwin African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St Valentine's Polish National Catholic Church — 6.8 mi away in Northampton, MA
- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton — 6.9 mi away in Northampton, MA
- Holy Name of Jesus Parish — 7.9 mi away in South Deerfield, MA
- Holy Family Roman Catholic Church — 7.9 mi away in South Deerfield, MA
- St. Francis Catholic Church — 9.5 mi away
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