Poplar Church

The community around Poplar Church

It takes 3.8 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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: 40.8%
• Child Poverty: 39.3% (20.0–58.6%)
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Food Insecurity: 24.8%
• Poverty Rate: 23.7% (14.4–32.9%)
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (9.6–21.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%

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

Churches near Poplar Church

• Lucern Church — 1.6 mi away in Union, MS
• Saint Catherine Catholic Church — 2.7 mi away in Conehatta, MS
• Erin Cumberland Church — 3 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 3.1 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.2 mi away
• Beatline Church — 3.2 mi away
• Hudsons Chapel — 3.4 mi away in Union, MS
• Erin Presbyterian Church — 3.7 mi away in Union, MS
• Conehatta Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Pine Ridge Church — 4.1 mi away