Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 2.6 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 31.0%
• Obesity: 41.6%
• Child Poverty: 34.3% (19.4–49.2%)
• Depression: 29.4%
• Poverty Rate: 23.2% (14.4–32.1%)
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.8–16.3%)
• Unemployment: 7.8% (1.2–14.5%)

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

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Bethany Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Doe Valley Church — 1.1 mi away
• Dewey Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
• Damascus Church — 1.9 mi away
• Heavenly Light Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Bethel Church — 3.7 mi away
• A Local Gathering — 3.7 mi away
• First Assembly of God — 3.7 mi away
• Valley View Church — 3.8 mi away