Center Ridge Church

The community around Center Ridge 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 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 42.4%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Child Poverty: 32.2% (14.5–50.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Food Insecurity: 23.2%
• Poverty Rate: 22.4% (15.0–29.7%)
• Diabetes: 17.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.4–16.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

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

Churches near Center Ridge Church

• Big Oak Church — 2.4 mi away in De Kalb, MS
• Mount Carmel Church — 2.5 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 3.2 mi away
• Liberty Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Corinth Church — 3.6 mi away in De Kalb, MS
• Harmony Church — 3.7 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Greater Love Ministries — 3.7 mi away in Union, MS
• Herbert Church — 3.8 mi away in Union, MS
• Zion Church — 3.8 mi away
• Zion Baptist Church (Collinsville, Mississippi) — 3.8 mi away in Meridian, MS