Marvin Chapel

The community around Marvin Chapel

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. 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: 50.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.2%
• Diabetes: 22.6%
• Child Poverty: 30.8% (15.1–46.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 28.9% (20.3–37.5%)
• Depression: 27.6%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
• Unemployment: 8.1% (2.1–14.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Marvin Chapel

• Friendship Church — 1.5 mi away
• LifePoint Church — 1.6 mi away
• Upper Salem M.B. Church — 1.6 mi away
• Beech Grove Church — 1.7 mi away
• Christ Church of Brownsville — 1.8 mi away
• Mt Zion Temple Cogic — 2 mi away
• Mercer Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Fellowship Church of God — 2.1 mi away
• Jefferson Street Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away
• Lower Salem Missionary Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away