New Salem Church

The community around New Salem Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.7%
• Depression: 30.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Poverty Rate: 17.9% (9.5–26.4%)

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

Churches near New Salem Church

• Memorial Chapel — 1.5 mi away
• Laurel View Church — 1.9 mi away
• Caney Creek Church — 2.1 mi away
• Rogersville Church of God — 2.6 mi away
• Hasson Street Christian Church — 2.6 mi away
• Howes Chapel Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Rogersville Baptist Temple — 2.7 mi away
• Community Chapel Church of God — 2.7 mi away
• Rogersville Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 2.8 mi away