Gordon Heights Church

The community around Gordon Heights Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

• Child Poverty: 51.6% (35.3–67.9%)
• Social Isolation: 37.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
• Food Insecurity: 24.4%
• Poverty Rate: 22.3% (12.3–32.3%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.9% (14.0–25.9%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Obesity: 39.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%

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

Churches near Gordon Heights Church

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
• the Church of Grady County — 0.7 mi away
• Victory Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Cairo Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
• Living Hope Faith Center — 1.2 mi away
• Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Church of the Nazarene — 1.3 mi away
• St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away