Palm Tree Church

The community around Palm Tree Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 37.4% (19.9–55.0%)
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Unemployment: 10.5% (2.9–18.0%)
• Obesity: 39.1%
• Depression: 27.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
• Poverty Rate: 19.8% (12.1–27.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.7%
• Diabetes: 14.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.2–17.7%)

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

Churches near Palm Tree Church

• Saint Pauls Church — 0.5 mi away
• First Baptist of Lawndale Church — 0.7 mi away
• Lawndale Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Elliotts Memorial Church — 1.5 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
• New Bethel Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Jones Tabernacle CME — 2.7 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Shelby, NC
• Golden Ridge Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Shelby, NC