Metropolitan AME Church
Metropolitan AME Church is a African_methodist_episcopal church at 2137 56th Street in Dallas, TX 75241. It is one of 1,880 churches in Dallas, and one of 3 African_methodist_episcopal congregations in the city.
2137 56th Street, Dallas, TX, 75241Metropolitan AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Metropolitan AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 47.8%
- Child Poverty: 44.8% (30.2–59.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.2%
- Poverty Rate: 36.0% (21.4–50.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.8% (18.4–33.3%)
- Diabetes: 21.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Dallas city is served by 1,325 churches — about one congregation for every 1,008 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan AME Church
- Bread of Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Hope Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweet Fellowship Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Remnant of Grace Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Words of Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Well-Spring Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Start Deliverance Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- It's All About Him Ministries — 0.3 mi away