Spanish Oak Church

The community around Spanish Oak Church

It takes 4.8 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 about 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: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 34.7%
• Child Poverty: 30.9% (13.0–49.1%)
• Diabetes: 16.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
• Food Insecurity: 18.2%
• Poverty Rate: 17.7% (10.8–24.5%)
• Unemployment: 6.3% (1.4–11.2%)

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

Churches near Spanish Oak Church

• McClain Chapel — 1.6 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Vardaman Church — 1.6 mi away
• Liberty Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Collinsville, MS
• Hopewell Church — 2.1 mi away in Collinsville, MS
• Mars Hill Church — 2.4 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• One Church — 2.7 mi away
• Tucker Church — 2.7 mi away
• Unity Springs Church — 2.8 mi away
• Mount Carmel Church — 3.7 mi away in Collinsville, MS
• Cooks Chapel — 3.9 mi away in Philadelphia, MS