New Salem Church

The community around New Salem Church

It takes 2.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
• Obesity: 44.0%
• Social Isolation: 33.4%
• Food Insecurity: 23.6%
• Poverty Rate: 22.8% (14.6–31.0%)
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Depression: 26.6%
• Child Poverty: 26.5% (13.1–39.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (7.7–18.0%)

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

Churches near New Salem Church

• First Church of God — 2.3 mi away
• St Eustachius Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away
• Living Stone Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Apostolic Church — 4 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 4.3 mi away
• Lily of the Valley Church — 5 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 5.2 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 6 mi away
• Clover Hill Church — 6 mi away
• Stanley Church — 7.2 mi away in Hayti, MO