Hervey Chapel

The community around Hervey Chapel

It takes 5.6 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 54.3% (37.2–71.4%)
• Obesity: 47.4%
• Social Isolation: 40.7%
• Food Insecurity: 37.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.8%
• Diabetes: 19.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
• Poverty Rate: 29.7% (19.1–40.2%)
• Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (11.1–22.7%)
• Unemployment: 11.0% (4.7–17.2%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Hervey Chapel

• Travelers Rest Church — 1.4 mi away in Sunflower, MS
• Moorhead Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Saint Luke Church of God in Christ — 1.6 mi away
• Moorhead Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Swan Lake Church — 2.9 mi away in Indianola, MS
• Green Grove Church — 3.1 mi away
• Union Grove Church — 3.2 mi away
• Zion Rock Church — 3.2 mi away in Sunflower, MS
• Duncan Chapel — 4.4 mi away in Sunflower, MS
• Marble Hill Church — 4.5 mi away in Indianola, MS