West Decatur Church

The community around West Decatur Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Child Poverty: 33.7% (16.7–51.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 23.9% (15.6–32.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.9%
• Obesity: 37.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
• Diabetes: 13.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.0–15.6%)

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

Churches near West Decatur Church

• Saint Mary Church — 1.8 mi away
• Clarke Venable Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 2.1 mi away
• Cross Roads Church — 2.1 mi away
• Decatur Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Church Arise — 2.4 mi away
• Pine Ridge MB Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Pine Ridge MB Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Pilgrim Rest Church — 3.1 mi away
• Pine Ridge Church — 3.4 mi away