New Zion Church

The community around New Zion Church

It takes 3.1 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 of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Poverty Rate: 25.8% (13.4–38.1%)
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
• Food Insecurity: 19.5%

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

Churches near New Zion Church

• Providence Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
• Shady Grove Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
• Shelton Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Hattiesburg Community Church — 2.7 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
• Beacon Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
• Pine Grove Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Unity Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Maybank Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
• Eastabutchie Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Eastabutchie, MS
• Mary Magdalene Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS