Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.2% (26.5–53.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 25.1%
• Diabetes: 19.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
• Obesity: 43.9%
• Social Isolation: 37.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
• Poverty Rate: 28.8% (20.0–37.6%)
• Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (8.9–18.0%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
• Unemployment: 6.9% (2.4–11.4%)

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

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• New Hope Church — 2.4 mi away
• Farrell Church — 2.7 mi away
• Morning Glory Church — 2.8 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 2.9 mi away
• Humber Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Lone Oak Church — 3 mi away
• Church of the Nazarene — 3.4 mi away
• Clarksdale Church of God — 3.5 mi away
• Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 3.5 mi away