Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.7%
• Diabetes: 18.5%
• Obesity: 43.4%
• Social Isolation: 36.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
• Poverty Rate: 20.5% (10.3–30.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (7.4–14.9%)

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Liberty Church — 2.4 mi away in Ashland, MS
• Harris Chapel — 2.5 mi away
• Royston Chapel — 3.4 mi away in Potts Camp, MS
• Powell Chapel — 3.7 mi away
• St Luke Church of God In Christ — 4.2 mi away in Ashland, MS
• South Ashland Church — 4.8 mi away in Ashland, MS
• Ashland Church of Christ — 5 mi away in Ashland, MS
• Beulah Hill Church — 5.2 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 5.3 mi away in Ashland, MS
• Bluff Springs Church — 5.3 mi away in Ashland, MS