Melbourne Church

The community around Melbourne Church

It takes 8.8 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 45.7%
• Social Isolation: 42.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.5%
• Food Insecurity: 36.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
• Unemployment: 17.4% (2.8–31.9%)
• Poverty Rate: 22.8% (11.2–34.4%)
• Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
• Depression: 24.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2% (12.4–20.6%)
• Diabetes: 14.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (4.8–18.0%)

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

Churches near Melbourne Church

• Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
• Seventh Star Church — 1.7 mi away
• Mound Chapel — 4 mi away
• New Bethlehem Church — 5.2 mi away
• Pleasant Green Church — 5.4 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• New Zion Church — 6.3 mi away
• St John Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• Mount Zion Church — 7.7 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• New Light Church — 7.9 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• Morningstar Church — 7.9 mi away in Lake Providence, LA