Mount New Home Church
Mount New Home Church is a church at Dixie Lake Road in Folkston, GA 31537. It is one of 30 churches in Folkston.
Dixie Lake Road, Folkston, GA, 31537Find Mount New Home Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Mount New Home 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 51.5% (32.3–70.6%)
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
- Food Insecurity: 32.1%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Poverty Rate: 27.9% (18.4–37.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.9% (12.7–27.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (2.5–20.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Folkston city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 350 residents.
Churches near Mount New Home Church
- Piney Grove Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethlehem Holiness Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.9 mi away
- Folkston Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Church of God — 1.4 mi away
- Calvary Church — 1.4 mi away in Homeland, GA