Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 2.9 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: 52.8% (34.9–70.9%)
• Poverty Rate: 32.0% (22.1–42.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
• Food Insecurity: 28.6%
• Diabetes: 19.7%
• Obesity: 44.7%
• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
• Depression: 24.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (4.4–18.2%)

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

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• LifeChurch UPC — 0.5 mi away
• United Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
• Saint John Church — 0.9 mi away
• Martins Chapel — 1.7 mi away
• Trinity Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Elizabethtown Seventh-day Adventist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Elizabethtown Presbyterian Church — 1.9 mi away
• Our Lady of Snows Catholic Church — 2 mi away
• Trinity Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
• First Missionary Baptist Church Elizabethtown, North Carolina — 2.2 mi away