Salem Church

The community around Salem Church

It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Obesity: 38.0%
• Social Isolation: 31.7%
• Child Poverty: 28.7% (11.7–46.7%)
• Depression: 24.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
• Food Insecurity: 16.6%
• Diabetes: 13.9%

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

Churches near Salem Church

• Mount Zion Number 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 2.4 mi away in Hickory Grove, SC
• Mount Tabor Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Abingdon Creek Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Mesopotamia Church — 3.8 mi away
• Skull Shoals Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Shiloh Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Sharon, SC
• Holiness Church — 4.6 mi away in Hickory Grove, SC
• Unity Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Hickory Grove, SC
• Hickory Grove Church of God — 4.9 mi away in Hickory Grove, SC
• Shady Grove Church — 5 mi away in Sharon, SC