Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 33.9% (14.6–53.3%)
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Poverty Rate: 28.8% (15.9–41.7%)
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Obesity: 39.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
• Food Insecurity: 19.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (5.1–20.7%)

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

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Arkadelphia Church — 1.5 mi away
• Bailey Church — 2.3 mi away
• White Oak Church — 2.5 mi away
• Tabernacle Church — 2.6 mi away
• Gum Log Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Fellowship Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Andrews Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• Daleville Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
• St Mark United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in Daleville, MS
• Greater Outreach Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Meridian, MS