Mount Vernon Church

The community around Mount Vernon Church

It takes 6.1 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 nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 36.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
• Food Insecurity: 24.0%
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
• Poverty Rate: 21.2% (10.6–31.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.5–16.6%)

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

Churches near Mount Vernon Church

• Asberry Church — 2.2 mi away
• Spring Hill Church — 3 mi away
• Hamilton Chapel Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 3.7 mi away in Abbeville, MS
• Spring Hill Church — 3.8 mi away
• Greenfield Presbyterian Church — 3.9 mi away in Waterford, MS
• Greenfield Church — 4.2 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 4.9 mi away in Abbeville, MS
• Bible Way Church — 4.9 mi away in Abbeville, MS
• Baptist Hill MB Church — 5 mi away in Potts Camp, MS