Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 69.1% (50.1–88.1%)
• Poverty Rate: 41.6% (27.5–55.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Obesity: 43.2%
• Depression: 31.2%
• Unemployment: 7.7% (0.7–15.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Southeastern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Emanuel Church — 0.6 mi away
• Old Time Missionary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Richland Church — 1.9 mi away
• Henderson Chapel — 3.1 mi away in Barbourville, KY
• Northside Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Barbourville, KY
• Highland Park Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Barbourville, KY
• Callihan Church — 3.5 mi away in Barbourville, KY
• Saint Gregory Catholic Church — 3.5 mi away in Barbourville, KY