Walter Mitchell Church

The community around Walter Mitchell Church

It takes 6.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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.

• Unemployment: 15.2% (7.6–22.8%)
• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Child Poverty: 31.4% (15.9–46.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
• Food Insecurity: 23.6%
• Diabetes: 17.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
• Poverty Rate: 19.3% (11.8–26.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

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

Churches near Walter Mitchell Church

• Church of God — 1.7 mi away in Jackson, AL
• Community Holiness Church — 1.8 mi away in Jackson, AL
• Hebron Church — 1.9 mi away
• Saint Lukes Church — 2.5 mi away
• Berry's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 2.6 mi away in Jackson, AL
• Pine Chapel — 2.6 mi away
• New Clarksville Church — 3.1 mi away
• Church of God — 3.4 mi away
• Wesley Chapel Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away in Jackson, AL
• Good Springs Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Jackson, AL