Persimmon Ridge Church

The community around Persimmon Ridge Church

It takes 6.1 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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: 41.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
• Food Insecurity: 21.9%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
• Child Poverty: 24.8% (7.7–42.5%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.3% (12.9–29.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.1–18.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Persimmon Ridge Church

• Liberty Church — 0.1 mi away
• Liberty Church — 1.1 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 3.2 mi away
• New Hope Church — 3.7 mi away
• Corinth Church — 3.8 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 3.8 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4.1 mi away
• New Hope Church — 4.4 mi away
• Blackwater Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
• Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Bailey, MS