Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Child Poverty: 40.3% (24.0–57.4%)
• Obesity: 42.0%
• Social Isolation: 36.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
• Food Insecurity: 22.3%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (9.9–21.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 19.2% (11.5–26.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Friendship Church — 2.4 mi away
• Friendship Church — 2.5 mi away
• Bethel Church — 3.3 mi away
• Popular Springs Church — 3.3 mi away
• Jackson Grove Church — 3.5 mi away
• Paducah Well Church — 4.8 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 5.3 mi away
• Pine Hill Church — 5.5 mi away in Oakland, MS
• Crowder Assembly of God — 5.8 mi away in Crowder, MS
• Mount Pisgah Church — 5.8 mi away in Oakland, MS