Independence Church

The community around Independence Church

It takes 6.1 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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: 40.9%
• Child Poverty: 38.7% (20.5–56.8%)
• Social Isolation: 33.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
• Depression: 27.1%
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Poverty Rate: 21.2% (12.3–30.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (8.2–18.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
• Unemployment: 7.0% (1.9–12.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Independence Church

• Shepherd's Fold Church — 0.1 mi away
• State Line Church — 2 mi away
• Friendship Church — 2.1 mi away
• Buncomb Church — 3.2 mi away
• Saint Margarite Mary Church — 4.5 mi away
• New Morning Star Church — 4.6 mi away
• El Bethel Church — 4.7 mi away
• Naylor Pentecostal Church — 5 mi away in Naylor, MO
• Walnut Grove Church — 5.1 mi away
• Barks Church — 5.2 mi away