Brooklyn Church

The community around Brooklyn Church

It takes 5.4 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 48.2%
• Food Insecurity: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 40.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 29.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 18.6%
• Child Poverty: 35.7% (19.6–51.7%)
• Transportation Barriers: 21.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.3%
• Unemployment: 10.7% (3.7–17.6%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.6% (12.7–28.5%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.7–16.5%)

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

Churches near Brooklyn Church

• Webb Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Webb, MS
• Friendship Temple Church — 1.4 mi away
• First Baptist Church Sumner — 1.5 mi away in Sumner, MS
• Sumner Church of God — 1.7 mi away in Sumner, MS
• Frierson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
• Good Hope Church — 2.4 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
• Mount Carmel Church — 2.6 mi away
• Frierson Chapel — 2.7 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
• Sweet Home Church — 3.2 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
• Pleasant Grove Church — 3.2 mi away