Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 47.6% (32.1–63.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
• Poverty Rate: 32.3% (21.7–43.0%)
• Diabetes: 20.8%
• Obesity: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 33.0%
• Depression: 31.1%
• Food Insecurity: 22.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
• Unemployment: 11.0% (3.4–18.5%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (4.6–19.6%)

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

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Bryner Chapel — 2 mi away
• Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Walnut Grove Church — 3 mi away
• Stony Point Church — 3.6 mi away
• Wright Church — 3.6 mi away
• Victory Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Philip Run Church — 4.3 mi away
• Henry Fork Church — 4.4 mi away
• Little Creek Church — 4.7 mi away