Mount Pilgrim Church

The community around Mount Pilgrim Church

It takes 7.3 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: 45.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
• Poverty Rate: 30.4% (19.1–41.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 30.2%
• Diabetes: 19.4%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Child Poverty: 35.7% (18.8–52.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
• Depression: 25.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.1%

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

Churches near Mount Pilgrim Church

• Montrose Church — 1.8 mi away
• Union Church — 2.2 mi away
• Saint John Church — 2.9 mi away
• Come and See Church — 3.4 mi away
• Pure Fountain Church — 3.5 mi away
• Mt Celler Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 4 mi away
• Saint Paul Church — 4.1 mi away
• Mount Abbey Church — 4.4 mi away
• Mount Moriah Church Number 2 — 4.5 mi away