Mount Prospect Church

The community around Mount Prospect Church

It takes 6.9 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 47.1%
• Food Insecurity: 29.2%
• Diabetes: 19.2%
• Unemployment: 12.5% (1.7–23.4%)
• Social Isolation: 37.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
• Child Poverty: 26.9% (6.9–46.8%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.8% (10.5–31.0%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Prospect Church

• New Prospect Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Mount Nebo Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• New Prospect Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Hawkins Chapel — 1.2 mi away
• Shady Grove Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 3.8 mi away
• Morning Star Second Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 4.2 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 4.4 mi away