Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Poverty Rate: 25.9% (16.2–35.6%)
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Unemployment: 9.1% (2.9–15.5%)
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Social Isolation: 31.4%
• Depression: 26.3%
• Food Insecurity: 19.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (8.9–19.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Lees Summit Church — 2.3 mi away
• Phillipsburg Assembly of God — 2.8 mi away
• Phillipsburg Church — 2.8 mi away
• Phillipsburg Christian Church — 2.9 mi away
• Union Church — 2.9 mi away in Lebanon, MO
• Phillipsburg Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Phillipsburg United Methodist — 3 mi away
• New Hope Church — 3.2 mi away
• Phillipsburg Christian Church — 3.1 mi away
• Church of Christ — 3.4 mi away in Conway, MO