Mountain Grove Church

The community around Mountain Grove Church

It takes 4.2 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 nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 10 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.

• Obesity: 40.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
• Unemployment: 9.3% (2.9–15.8%)
• Social Isolation: 31.0%
• Depression: 26.2%
• Child Poverty: 24.1% (12.2–36.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.0%
• Poverty Rate: 16.0% (9.8–22.3%)
• Diabetes: 14.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (8.9–18.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%

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

Churches near Mountain Grove Church

• Ritchey Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Ritchey, MO
• Mound Chapel — 2.4 mi away
• Newtonia Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Stark City, MO
• Berwick Church — 3.6 mi away in Pierce City, MO
• Shoal Creek Revival Church — 3.6 mi away in Pierce City, MO
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 4.4 mi away in Granby, MO
• Van Buren Church — 4.5 mi away in Pierce City, MO
• Clear Creek Church — 4.6 mi away in Pierce City, MO
• Van Buren Church — 4.9 mi away in Pierce City, MO
• Granby First Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Granby, MO