Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 52.2% (38.9–65.9%)
• Poverty Rate: 32.7% (22.1–43.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
• Food Insecurity: 31.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.4% (19.6–33.3%)
• Obesity: 45.0%
• Social Isolation: 36.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
• Depression: 25.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.6%

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

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Mount Gilead Church — 0.3 mi away
• Holly Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• Milton Grove Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Red Hill Church — 2.9 mi away
• Andrews Chapel — 3.1 mi away
• Way of the Cross Church — 3.6 mi away in Turkey, NC
• Union Grove Church — 4 mi away
• Epworth Church — 4.3 mi away
• United Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 4.6 mi away