Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 5.5 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 about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 60.8% (44.8–76.9%)
• Obesity: 46.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
• Poverty Rate: 32.0% (22.2–41.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 30.2%
• Diabetes: 20.8%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Depression: 29.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
• Unemployment: 9.2% (3.4–14.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• Providence Church — 1.9 mi away
• Victory Life Center — 2.3 mi away in Ringgold, LA
• Fizer Memorial Church of God In Christ — 2.5 mi away in Ringgold, LA
• Faith Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Ringgold, LA
• Saint Marys Church — 2.6 mi away
• Ringgold Church of Christ — 2.8 mi away in Ringgold, LA
• Jamestown Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Jamestown, LA
• First United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in Ringgold, LA
• Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church — 2.9 mi away in Ringgold, LA
• United Pentecostal Church — 3.1 mi away in Ringgold, LA