Pleasant Grove AME Church

The community around Pleasant Grove AME 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 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 28.2%
• Diabetes: 18.7%
• Obesity: 41.6%
• Social Isolation: 39.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (12.0–21.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
• Unemployment: 9.7% (3.4–16.1%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
• Child Poverty: 22.5% (5.8–39.5%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.4% (11.4–29.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.1%

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

Churches near Pleasant Grove AME Church

• Bethel Church — 1.4 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
• New Bethel Church — 2.6 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
• Saint Mathis Missionary Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• New Salem Church — 3.9 mi away
• Bellevue Church — 4.4 mi away
• Oak Grove A.M.E. Church — 4.6 mi away
• Enterprise Free Will Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 4.8 mi away
• Mount Calvary Church — 4.9 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
• Piney Grove Church — 5.1 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA