Hickory Flat Church

The community around Hickory Flat Church

It takes 6.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 29.2%
• Obesity: 43.6%
• Social Isolation: 40.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (10.4–22.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
• Poverty Rate: 18.9% (10.3–27.6%)
• Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
• Unemployment: 6.1% (1.9–10.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Hickory Flat Church

• Brandywine Church — 1.9 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 2 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.8 mi away
• Salem Church — 2.8 mi away
• Rehobeth Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS
• Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Pleasant Green Church — 4.5 mi away
• Salem Church — 4.8 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS
• Old Sarepta Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
• Antioch Church — 5.2 mi away