Turners Chapel

The community around Turners Chapel

It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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: 66.6% (49.0–84.1%)
• Obesity: 52.3%
• Poverty Rate: 45.7%
• Food Insecurity: 44.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 31.4%
• Diabetes: 26.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
• Unemployment: 12.6% (5.2–20.1%)
• Social Isolation: 39.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (10.7–19.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%

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

Churches near Turners Chapel

• Saint James Church — 1.5 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 2.1 mi away
• Sunnyside Church — 2.3 mi away
• New Prospect Church — 2.4 mi away
• New Mount Zion Church — 2.9 mi away
• New Hope Church — 3.3 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 3.6 mi away
• Old Mount Olive Church — 3.7 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
• Mount Olive Church — 4 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
• Community Chapel Assembly of God — 4 mi away