St James AME Zion Church

The community around St James AME Zion Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Social Isolation: 32.8%
• Child Poverty: 30.5% (16.3–44.7%)
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Depression: 23.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
• Poverty Rate: 18.9% (10.8–26.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (7.0–16.0%)
• Unemployment: 6.4% (1.7–11.1%)

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

Churches near St James AME Zion Church

• Western Prong Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Sandhill Missionary Church — 2.1 mi away in Bladenboro, NC
• Saint James Church — 2.4 mi away in Bladenboro, NC
• Mount Zion Church — 2.9 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3 mi away
• Graham Tabernacle — 3.8 mi away
• Prong Chapel — 3.9 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Piney Grove Church — 3.9 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 4 mi away
• Clarkton Presbyterian Church — 4.1 mi away