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

• Living Stone Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• First Church of God — 2.8 mi away
• St Eustachius Catholic Church — 2.8 mi away
• New Salem Church — 4.3 mi away
• Lily of the Valley Church — 6.7 mi away
• Clover Hill Church — 7.3 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 7.6 mi away
• Apostolic Church — 8 mi away
• PVGBC — 8.4 mi away in Risco, MO
• Huie Church — 8.6 mi away in Gideon, MO