Phaltie Church

The community around Phaltie Church

It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Obesity: 43.8%
• Social Isolation: 36.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
• Food Insecurity: 24.9%
• Child Poverty: 22.9% (7.6–38.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
• Poverty Rate: 17.5% (11.1–23.8%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (6.9–17.7%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

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

Churches near Phaltie Church

• Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Louin, MS
• Bay Springs Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away
• New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Bay Springs Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Bay Springs Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away
• Bay Springs Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Bay Springs Assembly of God — 3.1 mi away
• Mount Nebo Church — 3.4 mi away
• Hill Chapel — 3.7 mi away in Louin, MS