Blue Mound Church

The community around Blue Mound Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Obesity: 45.7%
• Social Isolation: 32.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
• Food Insecurity: 20.4%
• Depression: 24.1%
• Poverty Rate: 17.4% (11.1–23.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
• Diabetes: 14.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (9.2–18.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%

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

Churches near Blue Mound Church

• Pleasant Hill Church — 3.9 mi away in Columbus, KS
• Pleasantview Church — 4.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
• Elm Christian Church — 4.4 mi away in Edna, KS
• Crossroads Christian Church — 4.4 mi away
• Crossroad Christian — 4.4 mi away
• Center Church — 4.4 mi away in Columbus, KS
• First United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away
• United Methodist Church Baxter Springs — 4.4 mi away
• Center Christian Church — 4.4 mi away in Columbus, KS