St. Mary of the Purification Catholic Church
St. Mary of the Purification Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Houston, TX 77004. It is one of 3,338 churches in Houston, and one of 57 Catholic congregations in the city.
Houston, TX, 77004Website: http://www.stmaryshouston.net/web
St. Mary of the Purification Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,262 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Texas — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St. Mary of the Purification Catholic 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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: 41.1%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (13.5–36.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (8.2–21.9%)
- Unemployment: 10.5% (3.4–17.5%)
- Child Poverty: 27.6% (18.5–39.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- 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 St. Mary of the Purification Catholic Church
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- Calvary Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- St. James' Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Park Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- City Wide Baptist Brotherhood Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mountain Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- Houston Praise & Worship Center — 0.7 mi away
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