Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 5.3 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 nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 40.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
• Poverty Rate: 22.9% (14.9–31.0%)
• Diabetes: 16.7%
• Social Isolation: 31.2%
• Depression: 26.9%
• Child Poverty: 22.8% (7.3–38.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (6.3–16.1%)
• Unemployment: 6.4% (1.6–11.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• Solid Rock Church — 1.1 mi away
• Moores Chapel — 1.7 mi away
• Freedom Church — 3.2 mi away
• Niece Church — 5.4 mi away
• Trinity Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away
• Nogle Church — 6.5 mi away
• Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 6.7 mi away
• Willow Springs First Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away
• Westside Family Life Center — 6.9 mi away
• Willow Springs Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 6.9 mi away