Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 47.3%
• Poverty Rate: 32.6% (22.0–43.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
• Food Insecurity: 29.6%
• Diabetes: 22.1%
• Child Poverty: 37.5% (21.6–53.4%)
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
• Unemployment: 9.7% (0.2–19.4%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (3.5–18.6%)

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Holly Grove Church — 1.5 mi away in Gloster, MS
• Bethany Church — 1.8 mi away
• Macedonia Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• United Methodist Church Centreville — 3 mi away
• Oasiscenter — 3 mi away
• Thomas Memorial Presbyterian Church — 3.1 mi away
• Midway Church — 3.1 mi away in Gloster, MS
• Centreville Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Damascus Church — 3.4 mi away in Gloster, MS
• New Hope Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Gloster, MS