Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 5.5 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Obesity: 47.8%
• Food Insecurity: 43.2%
• Social Isolation: 41.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
• Poverty Rate: 30.8% (19.7–42.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 30.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 23.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.4%
• Diabetes: 20.9%
• Unemployment: 16.6% (8.1–25.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (9.0–19.2%)

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

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Elizabeth Church — 2.6 mi away
• New Prospect Church — 2.8 mi away
• Mount Maria Church — 3.6 mi away in Moorhead, MS
• Bethlehem Church — 3.7 mi away in Moorhead, MS
• Swiftown Church of God in Christ — 4.2 mi away
• White Rock Church — 4.3 mi away
• Mount Airy Church — 4.5 mi away in Inverness, MS
• Pleasant Green Church — 4.5 mi away
• McGinnis Chapel — 5.1 mi away in Inverness, MS
• Church of God — 5.1 mi away