Wayside Church

Wayside Church is a church in MS 38953.

MS, 38953

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The community around Wayside Church

It takes 6.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 84.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 30.8% (15.3–46.3%)
  • Diabetes: 19.3%
  • Obesity: 43.7%
  • Social Isolation: 35.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 25.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (8.7–25.8%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
  • Unemployment: 6.2% (0.5–13.5%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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