Elton Avenue Methodist Church
Elton Avenue Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 790 Elton Avenue in New York, NY 10451. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 72 Methodist congregations in the city.
790 Elton Avenue, New York, NY, 10451Elton Avenue Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 979 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Elton Avenue Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 6,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 17.5% (9.1–26.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (20.3–38.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Child Poverty: 24.8% (13.4–36.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Elton Avenue Methodist Church
- Christian Federation Ministries — 0.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Dunamis Deliverance Discipleship Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Eternal Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Adalbert's Polish Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Life Ministries International - Christian Faith Center — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Saint Davis's — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Saints Peter and Paul — 0.2 mi away
- St. David's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Unida Latinoamericana — 0.2 mi away
- Ministerio De La Resurreccion — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
More Methodist churches nearby
- Epworth Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mother Walls African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.1 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Caldwell African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.1 mi away
- Woodycrest Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away