James Square Church

The community around James Square Church

It takes 5.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Diabetes: 18.2%
• Obesity: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
• Food Insecurity: 17.6%
• Unemployment: 6.4% (1.8–11.1%)

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

Churches near James Square Church

• Jerusalem Church — 0.3 mi away
• Matthews Chapel — 1.1 mi away
• Rock Church — 1.4 mi away
• Bethany Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Little Bethel Church — 4.2 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 4.3 mi away
• Zion Union Church — 4.5 mi away
• Philadelphia Church — 4.9 mi away
• Paradise Church — 5.1 mi away
• Tabernacle Church — 5.2 mi away