Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

• Obesity: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
• Food Insecurity: 20.6%
• Diabetes: 15.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
• Depression: 24.8%
• Child Poverty: 24.4% (11.4–37.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 17.9% (10.9–24.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.6–16.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Lockesburg First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church Lockesburg — 1 mi away
• Old Union Church — 1.6 mi away
• Old Bellville Church — 2 mi away
• Holly Springs Church — 2.2 mi away
• Rock Hill Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Kingree Chapel — 2.7 mi away
• Gravity Point Church — 3.4 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• New Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Lockesburg Arkansas — 5.5 mi away