Akers Chapel

The community around Akers Chapel

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
• Diabetes: 18.6%
• Obesity: 44.1%
• Depression: 30.1%
• Poverty Rate: 22.1% (13.9–30.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%

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

Churches near Akers Chapel

• Round Mountain Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
• Brown Chapel — 7.2 mi away
• Brown Chapel — 7.2 mi away
• Wolf River Church — 7.3 mi away
• Pine Haven Church of the Nazarene — 7.4 mi away
• Jamestown Seventh Day Adventist Church — 7.4 mi away
• Saint Christopher Catholic Church — 7.5 mi away
• Pine Haven Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away
• First Church of the Nazerene — 7.7 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 8 mi away