Saint James Episcopal Church
Saint James Episcopal Church is a church in Roanoke, VA 24012. It is one of 352 churches in Roanoke.
Roanoke, VA, 24012Saint James Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 277 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Virginia — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint James Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.3% (37.9–70.7%)
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (19.8–36.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Food Insecurity: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (3.0–12.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Saint James Episcopal Church
- Life Pointe Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 0.2 mi away
- Airlee Court Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista de Roanoke — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Roanoke First Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Abundant Grace Assembly — 0.5 mi away
- Bethany Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Saint Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint Pauls Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 3.3 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 3.4 mi away
- Saint Elizabeths Episcopal Church — 4.5 mi away