Mount Canaan Church

The community around Mount Canaan Church

It takes 10.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 55.1% (37.0–73.3%)
• Obesity: 46.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
• Food Insecurity: 28.7%
• Diabetes: 21.7%
• Unemployment: 12.4% (2.5–22.5%)
• Social Isolation: 37.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
• Poverty Rate: 20.1% (11.9–28.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Canaan Church

• Mount Olive Church — 1 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 2.2 mi away
• McWilliams Church — 2.9 mi away
• McWilliams Church — 2.9 mi away
• Bear Creek Church — 3.1 mi away
• Saint John Church — 3.2 mi away
• The Bear Creek Church — 3.3 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 3.3 mi away
• McWilliams Church — 3.4 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 3.9 mi away