Martins Chapel

The community around Martins Chapel

It takes 2.5 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 57.0% (38.3–75.8%)
• Obesity: 45.0%
• Poverty Rate: 34.1% (24.0–44.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
• Food Insecurity: 29.5%
• Diabetes: 20.0%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
• Depression: 24.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (4.6–18.9%)

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

Churches near Martins Chapel

• Elizabethtown Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Saint Christophers Church — 1.6 mi away
• Elizabethtown Presbyterian Church — 1.6 mi away
• Trinity Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Mount Carmel Church — 1.7 mi away
• Our Lady of Snows Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away
• Elizabethtown Seventh-day Adventist Church — 1.7 mi away
• First Missionary Baptist Church Elizabethtown, North Carolina — 2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Trinity Methodist Church — 2 mi away