Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Child Poverty: 61.1% (45.6–76.5%)
• Obesity: 46.8%
• Social Isolation: 42.8%
• Food Insecurity: 36.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
• Diabetes: 18.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
• Poverty Rate: 26.3% (15.5–37.1%)
• Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.2% (12.1–22.3%)
• Unemployment: 7.3% (2.5–12.6%)

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Bethel Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi away in Claiborne County, MS
• Mount Olive Church — 1.9 mi away
• Beechland Church — 2.3 mi away in Port Gibson, MS
• Oakland Memorial Chapel — 3.5 mi away
• Saint John Church — 5.1 mi away in St Joseph, LA
• Lakewood Church — 5.3 mi away in St Joseph, LA
• Laurel Hill Church — 5.6 mi away
• Old Rodney Presbyterian Church — 5.9 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in St Joseph, LA
• Rodney Baptist Church — 6 mi away