Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
• Food Insecurity: 20.1%
• Unemployment: 8.8% (4.2–13.3%)
• Obesity: 37.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
• Depression: 25.7%
• Child Poverty: 23.9% (8.0–39.8%)
• Poverty Rate: 19.9% (11.4–28.3%)
• Diabetes: 14.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (6.4–16.0%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Mount Pleasant Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Fairs Chapel Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Pilot Prairie Presbyterian Church — 2.2 mi away
• Birdsview United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Friendship Church — 3.9 mi away
• Waldron Pentecostal Church of God — 5 mi away
• Jubilee Church — 5.1 mi away
• Temple Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
• Apostolic Church In Action — 5.5 mi away
• Saint Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church — 5.5 mi away