Mount Vernon Church

The community around Mount Vernon Church

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 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
• Diabetes: 19.2%
• Obesity: 40.7%
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Depression: 31.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.3% (15.6–31.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.1%
• Unemployment: 8.7% (1.9–15.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Vernon Church

• Hayes Fork Church — 2.8 mi away
• Prudence Chapel — 2.8 mi away
• Fairview Church — 2.9 mi away
• White Oak Church — 3.1 mi away
• Knotts Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Little White Oak Church — 4 mi away
• Henry Fork Church — 4.1 mi away
• Otto Advent Christian Church — 4.7 mi away in Spencer, WV
• Ebenezer Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
• Keffer Church — 4.9 mi away