Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 5.0 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 42.0%
• Child Poverty: 37.9% (19.7–56.4%)
• Social Isolation: 36.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
• Poverty Rate: 23.8% (15.9–31.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.3%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%

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

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Harmony Church — 1.4 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Herbert Church — 1.8 mi away in Union, MS
• Greater Love Ministries — 2.2 mi away in Union, MS
• Liberty Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Center Ridge Church — 2.5 mi away
• Mars Hill Church — 2.9 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Hester Chapel — 2.9 mi away
• Smith Chapel — 3.1 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 3.2 mi away
• McClain Chapel — 3.5 mi away in Philadelphia, MS