Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church is a church at 2440 Martin Luther King Jr Ave in Knoxville, TN 37915-1633. It is one of 580 churches in Knoxville.
2440 Martin Luther King Jr Ave, Knoxville, TN, 37915-1633Phone: +18655222391 · Website: https://amezion.org/person/bishopleake/
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The community around Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 47.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 32.0% (22.6–41.5%)
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Depression: 29.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Child Poverty: 29.5% (16.8–42.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (7.8–21.0%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (1.0–14.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Overcoming Believers — 0.3 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cherry Street Church Of God — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian Center — 0.3 mi away