Mount Zion AME Church - Elloree, SC

The community around Mount Zion AME Church - Elloree, SC

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 46.0% (26.6–65.4%)
• Diabetes: 20.5%
• Obesity: 43.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
• Food Insecurity: 24.4%
• Poverty Rate: 23.7% (14.9–32.5%)
• Social Isolation: 30.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Zion AME Church - Elloree, SC

• Zion Church — 0 mi away
• Savannah Chapel — 2.3 mi away in Cameron, SC
• Mount Olive Church — 2.7 mi away in Cameron, SC
• First Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Union Church — 3.4 mi away
• Lutheran Trinity Church — 3.5 mi away
• Shiloh AME Church — 3.6 mi away
• Holy Grounds Worship Center — 3.6 mi away
• St Paul Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Brown Chapel AME Church — 3.7 mi away