East Alarka Church

The community around East Alarka Church

It takes 3.7 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Obesity: 40.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.0% (15.0–31.0%)
• Diabetes: 15.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (10.0–20.7%)
• Social Isolation: 30.9%
• Depression: 26.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
• Food Insecurity: 16.4%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (1.6–13.5%)

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

Churches near East Alarka Church

• Alarka Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Cochran Church — 1.3 mi away
• Assembly of God New Life — 1.7 mi away
• Jackson Line Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Cold Springs Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Impact Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 2.5 mi away
• Arlington Church — 2.7 mi away
• Sawmill Hill Church — 2.7 mi away
• Mount Carmel Church — 3 mi away