Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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.

• Unemployment: 20.1% (7.1–33.1%)
• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (9.6–21.5%)
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
• Child Poverty: 24.2% (9.1–39.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.7% (12.3–31.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Church of God — 1.4 mi away
• Pisgah Springs Church — 1.8 mi away
• Saint Mary Church — 2.2 mi away
• Lebanon Church — 2.3 mi away
• Household of Faith — 2.3 mi away
• Church Hill — 2.4 mi away
• Church of God — 2.4 mi away
• Harmony Freewill Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• South Union Church — 2.5 mi away
• Allen Chapel — 2.5 mi away