The Altar
The Altar is a church at 1122 Illinois Ave in Joplin, MO 64801-5000. It is one of 124 churches in Joplin.
1122 Illinois Ave, Joplin, MO, 64801-5000Phone: +14173174260 · Website: https://thealtarchurch.net/
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The community around The Altar
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 77.3%
- Poverty Rate: 49.8%
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Food Insecurity: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
- Depression: 32.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Unemployment: 16.1% (8.5–23.7%)
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (4.8–20.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near The Altar
- Joplin Church Alive — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist — 0.3 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.6 mi away
- Uncommon Life — 0.6 mi away
- SolaceChurch — 0.6 mi away
- First Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Harmony Heights Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
- CCC Saturday Night Live — 0.8 mi away