Mount Pilgrim Church

The community around Mount Pilgrim Church

It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
• Poverty Rate: 24.4% (14.8–34.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.5%
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Obesity: 39.0%
• Child Poverty: 24.6% (6.6–42.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (1.5–13.7%)

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

Churches near Mount Pilgrim Church

• New Beginning — 0.1 mi away
• Bethaven Church — 0.2 mi away
• Simmons Temple Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
• Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Bethel AME Church — 0.5 mi away
• The Place of Grace Outreach Inc — 0.7 mi away
• Collins Full Gospel — 0.8 mi away
• Collins Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
• Collins Church of God — 1.2 mi away
• Lighthouse Pentecostal Holiness Church — 1.2 mi away