United Methodist Church
United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 500 Dogwood Avenue in Richton, MS 39476. It is one of 20 churches in Richton.
500 Dogwood Avenue, Richton, MS, 39476Phone: +1-601-788-6709 · Website: https://www.richtonumc.com/
United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around United Methodist Church
It takes 4.5 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 nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Poverty Rate: 18.8% (12.7–24.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Richton town is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 896 residents.
Churches near United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church Richton — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Richton — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Richton Full Gospel Holiness Church — 1.6 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Richton First Free Will Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Lighthouse of Hope Ministries — 2.1 mi away