Gages Springs Church

The community around Gages Springs Church

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 51.6%
• Child Poverty: 44.5% (27.5–61.5%)
• Social Isolation: 42.8%
• Food Insecurity: 41.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
• Poverty Rate: 35.5% (24.4–46.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
• Diabetes: 24.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 21.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (6.4–15.8%)
• Unemployment: 6.4% (0.9–12.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Gages Springs Church

• Union Paradise Church — 2 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Georgeville Church — 2.8 mi away
• Franklin Church — 2.9 mi away in Pickens, MS
• Salem Church — 3 mi away
• Mount Calvary Church — 3.3 mi away
• West Hill Church — 3.7 mi away
• Springhill Church — 3.7 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Damascus Church — 3.9 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 4.2 mi away
• Mount Sinai Church — 4.2 mi away in Pickens, MS