Salem Church

The community around Salem Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Unemployment: 11.1% (4.4–17.9%)
• Social Isolation: 31.0%
• Depression: 25.6%

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

Churches near Salem Church

• Bethlehem Church — 0.9 mi away
• Lackey Town Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Living Waters Tabernacle — 1.6 mi away
• Old Fort Wesleyan Church — 2.5 mi away
• Old Fort United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Cherry Springs Church — 2.7 mi away
• Pharr Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church — 2.7 mi away
• Old Fort Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Cherry Springs Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away