Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.6% (13.9–27.2%)
• Social Isolation: 37.9%
• Child Poverty: 33.7% (21.0–46.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Unemployment: 8.1% (3.0–13.2%)
• Obesity: 38.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
• Poverty Rate: 18.3% (10.8–25.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
• Diabetes: 14.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

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

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• Morning Star Church — 2.2 mi away in Wesson, MS
• Spring Hill Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Wesson, MS
• Chapel Hill Church — 2.4 mi away in Wesson, MS
• Sylvarena Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Wesson, MS
• Beauregard United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Wesson, MS
• Wesson United Pentecostal Church — 3.2 mi away in Wesson, MS
• St Peter Rock MB Church — 3.2 mi away in Wesson, MS
• Springhill Pentecostal Church — 3.8 mi away in Wesson, MS
• Spring Hill Church — 3.8 mi away in Wesson, MS
• Zion Hill Church — 4.2 mi away in Wesson, MS