Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hattiesburg, MS 39401. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 46 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hattiesburg, MS, 39401Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Mount Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 39.6%
- Poverty Rate: 36.3% (23.5–49.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Unemployment: 13.9% (0.0–28.6%)
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (5.5–22.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Hattiesburg city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 689 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pathway Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Wayside Church — 0.4 mi away
- Martin Luther King Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Belt Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rock of Ages Christian Fellowship Center — 0.6 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Martin Luther King Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church at 4Points — 0.8 mi away
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