Damascus Church

The community around Damascus Church

It takes 5.1 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 50.0%
• Child Poverty: 44.5% (27.5–61.5%)
• Social Isolation: 41.5%
• Food Insecurity: 38.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
• Poverty Rate: 30.1% (19.7–40.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 27.9%
• Diabetes: 23.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.0–16.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Damascus Church

• Greater St Anderson COGIC — 2.2 mi away
• Salem Church — 2.4 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• ST. JAMES Church — 2.5 mi away
• John Wesley United Methodist — 2.7 mi away
• Mount Calvary Church — 2.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Liberty Hill AME Zion Church — 2.8 mi away
• Immanuel Church of Christ — 2.9 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away