Welcome Chapel

The community around Welcome Chapel

It takes 4.7 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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 80.2%
• Poverty Rate: 34.7%
• Food Insecurity: 33.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
• Diabetes: 21.1%
• Obesity: 44.5%
• Social Isolation: 37.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
• Unemployment: 10.5% (0.9–20.4%)
• Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (7.3–20.7%)

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

Churches near Welcome Chapel

• Whitehall Church — 0.7 mi away
• Ebenezer Church — 1.6 mi away
• Bethany Church — 2.2 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 2.5 mi away
• Calvary Church — 3 mi away
• New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Shiloh Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Center Ridge Church — 3.8 mi away
• Jehovah's Witnesses — 4.7 mi away
• Union Chapel Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away