Gratiot Avenue Presbyterian Church
Gratiot Avenue Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church at 8549 Gratiot Avenue in Detroit, MI 48213. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 14 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
8549 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48213Gratiot Avenue Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 303 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Michigan — 11,639 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around Gratiot Avenue Presbyterian 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 nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 50.6%
- Poverty Rate: 48.7% (33.2–64.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 48.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 21.6% (7.0–36.2%)
- Child Poverty: 37.1% (20.7–53.5%)
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Gratiot Avenue Presbyterian Church
- New Welcome Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Divine Deliverance Outreach Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church East — 0.3 mi away
- God's Way Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church of Detroit — 0.3 mi away
- Tree of Life Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Nativity of Our Lord Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Elizabeth Catholic Church Detroit, MI — 0.4 mi away
- Second Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Light Temple — 0.4 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church — 2.3 mi away