Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 8.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 53.6% (36.0–71.2%)
• Obesity: 46.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
• Food Insecurity: 30.7%
• Diabetes: 21.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
• Poverty Rate: 21.8% (11.4–32.1%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (7.5–22.2%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.7%

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Mount Olive Church — 1.3 mi away in Troy, AL
• Inverness Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• High Ridge Church — 1.9 mi away
• Neal Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 2 mi away
• Hawkins Chapel — 2 mi away
• Liberty Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Pine Grove Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Troy, AL
• Jones Chapel A.M.E. Church — 3.7 mi away
• Bethel Presbyterian Church — 4.2 mi away
• Mountain View Church — 4.4 mi away