Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Diabetes: 18.7%
• Obesity: 42.3%
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
• Poverty Rate: 25.2% (13.7–36.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.9%
• Depression: 23.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (8.2–17.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

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

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Saint Johns Church — 0.2 mi away
• Pocomoke Church — 0.9 mi away
• Emanuel Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away in Temperanceville, VA
• Pilgrim Church — 1.3 mi away
• Halls Chapel — 1.5 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 3.1 mi away
• Pittsville Church — 4.3 mi away
• Downings United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Oak Hall, VA
• Acts the Apostolic Church — 4.7 mi away in Temperanceville, VA
• Temperanceville Church of Christ — 4.8 mi away in Temperanceville, VA