East Market Street United Church of Christ
East Market Street United Church of Christ is a church in Akron, OH 44305. It is one of 431 churches in Akron.
Serving since 1904
Akron, OH, 44305Shares a ministry location with Karen Akron Baptist Church.
East Market Street United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 287 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Ohio — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around East Market Street United Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Depression: 29.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.8–14.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.1% (10.6–27.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near East Market Street United Church of Christ
- Karen Akron Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Goodyear Heights Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Good Hope Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Hart Street Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- True Vine Church of God in Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Fulton Street Community Church — 0.8 mi away
- Four Corner Star Church of God in Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Emmanuel United Church of Christ — 1.6 mi away
- Willard United Church of Christ — 1.6 mi away
- East Market Street United Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 3.9 mi away
- Tallmadge First Congregational — 3.9 mi away in Tallmadge, OH