St. James AME Church
St. James AME Church is a church at 3706 Davis St in Meridian, MS 39307-6939. It is one of 169 churches in Meridian.
3706 Davis St, Meridian, MS, 39307-6939Phone: +16014858810 · Website: http://www.stjamesame.org
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The community around St. James AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 87.9%
- Obesity: 52.3%
- Food Insecurity: 48.4%
- Poverty Rate: 41.4% (24.2–58.5%)
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
- Diabetes: 25.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (4.3–18.8%)
- Unemployment: 7.3% (1.8–13.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. James AME Church
- First Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Liberty Church of Mer — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Fitkins Memorial Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jubilee Mennonite Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away