Mount Bethel Number 2 Church

The community around Mount Bethel Number 2 Church

It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.1%
• Unemployment: 13.8% (6.6–22.8%)
• Obesity: 43.2%
• Social Isolation: 37.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
• Diabetes: 17.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
• Poverty Rate: 17.0% (9.5–24.5%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (7.1–16.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%

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

Churches near Mount Bethel Number 2 Church

• Mt Bethel Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Sandy Hook, MS
• Mount Bethel Church — 2.5 mi away
• Lowes Temple Church — 2.6 mi away in Foxworth, MS
• Hurricane Creek Church — 3.1 mi away
• Carson Springs Church — 3.2 mi away
• Turnage Chapel — 4 mi away in Foxworth, MS
• Crystal Springs Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Tylertown, MS
• Mount Olive Church — 4.5 mi away in Tylertown, MS
• New Hope Church — 4.6 mi away in Foxworth, MS
• Mount Carmel Church — 5.2 mi away in Foxworth, MS