Thayer Church

The community around Thayer Church

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Child Poverty: 35.3% (21.5–50.0%)
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Poverty Rate: 23.6% (12.6–34.6%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.1% (8.9–25.3%)
• Diabetes: 15.2%
• Obesity: 39.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
• Food Insecurity: 19.8%

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

Churches near Thayer Church

• Springfield Church — 0.8 mi away
• Cold Springs Church — 1.5 mi away
• Mount Moriah Church — 2 mi away
• Calvary Church — 2.5 mi away
• Bogue Chitto Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 3.1 mi away
• New Zion Union Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mt Zion Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Johnson Grove Church — 3.5 mi away
• Rose Hill Church — 3.9 mi away