Shady Grove Church

The community around Shady Grove 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third 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.

• Obesity: 47.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
• Poverty Rate: 30.8% (20.2–41.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 30.5%
• Diabetes: 20.1%
• Social Isolation: 36.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
• Child Poverty: 28.3% (13.6–43.0%)
• Depression: 25.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.8%

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

Churches near Shady Grove Church

• Southside Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• First Assembly of God — 1.8 mi away
• First Assembly of God — 1.9 mi away
• Full Gospel Temple — 2 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 2.1 mi away
• Jonesboro church of Christ — 2.2 mi away
• The Pentecostals of Jonesboro — 2.6 mi away
• Calvary Tabernacle — 2.6 mi away
• Rivers of Joy Ministries — 2.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away