Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 3.3 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: 36.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
• Poverty Rate: 24.0% (12.3–35.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.7%
• Diabetes: 17.8%
• Obesity: 39.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (8.1–20.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
• Unemployment: 6.9% (0.5–13.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Providence Community Church — 1.2 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 1.3 mi away
• Pauline Church — 1.9 mi away
• Second Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Welcome Hill Church of Christ — 2.9 mi away
• Richardson Creek Church — 3.1 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 3.4 mi away
• Gateway Church — 3.6 mi away in Valdosta, GA
• Pineview Church — 4 mi away in Hahira, GA
• Philadelphia Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away