New Mount Zion Church

The community around New Mount Zion Church

It takes 6.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Obesity: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
• Food Insecurity: 22.3%
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
• Poverty Rate: 20.0% (11.7–28.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.4–19.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
• Unemployment: 7.8% (3.0–12.6%)

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

Churches near New Mount Zion Church

• Pine Bluff Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Fair View Church — 2 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Chapel Hill Church — 4.3 mi away in Utica, MS
• Pleasant Ridge Church — 4.9 mi away
• Morning Star Church — 5.4 mi away in Utica, MS
• Mount Canna Church — 5.6 mi away
• Little Zion Church — 5.8 mi away
• Lowes Chapel — 5.9 mi away in Utica, MS
• Miller Springs Missionary Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Utica, MS