Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 30.1%
• Obesity: 43.8%
• Social Isolation: 33.2%
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Poverty Rate: 22.9% (14.5–31.3%)
• Diabetes: 16.7%
• Depression: 26.7%
• Child Poverty: 26.5% (13.2–39.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (7.6–17.8%)

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

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• Portageville First Assembly of God — 2 mi away
• Living Stone Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Temple of God's Glory — 2.6 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Portageville United Methodist — 2.8 mi away
• First Church of God — 2.8 mi away
• St Eustachius Catholic Church — 2.8 mi away
• New Bethel Church of Portageville, Mo — 3.1 mi away
• New Salem Church — 4.3 mi away
• Good Hope Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Marston, MO