Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 4.5 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 about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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: 37.1%
• Child Poverty: 33.6% (17.2–50.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 23.8% (13.9–33.7%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.3–23.3%)
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Obesity: 37.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
• Depression: 23.3%
• Food Insecurity: 19.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
• Unemployment: 6.5% (1.2–11.7%)

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Flat Rock Campgrounds Church — 1.8 mi away
• Mt Zion Community Church — 2.8 mi away
• Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Prospect United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Harmony Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Western Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Mount Carrie Missionary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Canaan Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away