East Athens Church

The community around East Athens Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 46.4%
• Child Poverty: 31.7% (15.6–47.9%)
• Depression: 29.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
• Poverty Rate: 20.6% (11.9–29.4%)
• Diabetes: 14.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (6.9–15.4%)
• Unemployment: 7.4% (2.0–13.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Athens city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 289 residents.

Churches near East Athens Church

• Trinity Grace Church - Athens — 0.3 mi away
• Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• The Church of Niota — 0.3 mi away in Niota, TN
• Mars Hill Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
• Genesis Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
• First United Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
• Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Athens Tennessee Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.8 mi away