Salem Church

The community around Salem Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 26.9%
• Diabetes: 18.5%
• Obesity: 42.3%
• Child Poverty: 31.4% (13.7–49.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
• Social Isolation: 31.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
• Depression: 24.7%
• Poverty Rate: 19.8% (11.6–27.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.5–16.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Salem Church

• Maloney Church — 1 mi away
• Ebenezer Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Swansea, SC
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Holy Temple Cathedral Church of God in Christ — 2.4 mi away
• Swansea First Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Penn Branch Church — 2.5 mi away
• St John's Church of God — 2.5 mi away
• Saint James Church — 2.7 mi away
• Chapel Hill Church — 2.7 mi away
• Freedom Light — 3.3 mi away in Swansea, SC