Mount Zion CME Church

The community around Mount Zion CME Church

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Child Poverty: 45.7% (26.2–65.2%)
• Poverty Rate: 32.1% (19.6–44.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 26.0%
• Obesity: 41.2%
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (11.8–26.0%)
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Depression: 23.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

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

Churches near Mount Zion CME Church

• Oak Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
• Graham United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Morgan Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
• Morgan Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Baxley, GA
• Hillcrest Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
• Consolation Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Baxley, GA
• Peoples Church — 4.2 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
• Asbury United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA