City of Refuge Church
City of Refuge Church is a church at 16661 East State Fair Avenue, Detroit in Detroit, MI 48205. It is one of 1,585 churches in Detroit.
16661 East State Fair Avenue, Detroit, Detroit, MI, 48205Website: http://www.cityofrefugechurch.net/
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The community around City of Refuge Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Child Poverty: 44.4% (24.8–63.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.8%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.9% (19.2–40.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (4.4–17.8%)
- Depression: 23.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
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