Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Child Poverty: 51.4% (31.7–71.2%)
• Social Isolation: 34.2%
• Obesity: 38.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
• Poverty Rate: 21.8% (9.7–33.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.0%
• Diabetes: 14.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.5–18.9%)
• Unemployment: 7.0% (0.4–13.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Mount Moriah Church — 2.5 mi away
• Souls Harbor Church — 2.6 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
• Thayer Church — 3.1 mi away
• Victory Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
• Greenwood Church — 3.3 mi away
• Wellman Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Bethel Temple Church — 3.5 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
• Pleasant Hill Church — 3.7 mi away
• Mallalieu Church — 3.7 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
• Cold Springs Church — 3.7 mi away