Mount Vernon Church

The community around Mount Vernon Church

It takes 5.9 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 of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.5%
• Depression: 28.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Poverty Rate: 18.5% (8.0–28.9%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (5.3–23.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Vernon Church

• New Salem Church — 1.2 mi away
• Old Bethel Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Union Chapel — 2.3 mi away
• New Hope Church — 3.7 mi away
• Zion Hill Church — 3.7 mi away
• Knob Creek Church — 3.7 mi away in Fulton, KY
• Palmersville Missionary Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
• Palmersville Primitive Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• Bible Union Church of Christ — 5.1 mi away in Dresden, TN
• Good Springs Church — 5.3 mi away