Saint Matthew Church

The community around Saint Matthew Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 43.0%
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
• Food Insecurity: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 16.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
• Child Poverty: 24.5% (6.3–42.7%)
• Poverty Rate: 17.8% (8.2–27.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (5.8–19.7%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
• Unemployment: 8.0% (2.0–14.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Matthew Church

• Mount View Church — 0.2 mi away
• Beech Hill Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
• West Ripley Church — 1.4 mi away
• Union Church — 1.7 mi away
• Hickory Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• Unity Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Palmer Church — 1.9 mi away
• First United Pentecostal Church — 2.2 mi away
• West Ripley Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Ripley Primitive Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away