Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 5.5 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 about a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 44.7%
• Social Isolation: 34.2%
• Child Poverty: 32.3% (16.2–48.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
• Food Insecurity: 23.8%
• Poverty Rate: 22.6% (13.2–31.9%)
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Unemployment: 8.4% (2.4–14.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (7.3–16.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Pleasant Hill Church — 3.9 mi away
• Church of God — 4.5 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4.6 mi away
• Trinity Assembly of God, Olive Branch, IL — 5.8 mi away in Olive Branch, IL
• Bethel Temple Church of God — 6.3 mi away in Mounds, IL
• Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Mounds, IL
• St Paul Ame Church — 6.5 mi away in Mounds, IL
• Church of God and Son — 6.6 mi away in Mounds, IL
• Mounds Church of Christ — 6.7 mi away in Mounds, IL
• Shiloh Church — 6.8 mi away