New Mount Zion Church

The community around New Mount Zion Church

It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 54.1%
• Food Insecurity: 51.0%
• Social Isolation: 41.4%
• Child Poverty: 41.4% (23.3–59.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 36.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.9%
• Poverty Rate: 32.3% (20.8–43.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 25.8%
• Diabetes: 24.1%
• Depression: 28.1%
• Unemployment: 9.6% (1.8–17.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%

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

Churches near New Mount Zion Church

• Willow Bayou Church — 4 mi away
• The Ark Of The Covenant. — 4.4 mi away
• First Colored Missionary Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• New Friendship Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• New Bethel Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
• New Home Church — 4.7 mi away
• New Morning Star Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
• New Light Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
• Palestine MB Church — 4.8 mi away
• East Star Church — 4.9 mi away