New Heights SDA Church, Jackson, MS

The community around New Heights SDA Church, Jackson, MS

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

• Obesity: 48.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
• Food Insecurity: 33.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 25.1%
• Diabetes: 22.8%
• Social Isolation: 39.4%
• Poverty Rate: 26.1% (14.8–37.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (7.0–23.6%)
• Unemployment: 9.8% (3.4–16.2%)
• Transportation Barriers: 16.5%

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

Churches near New Heights SDA Church, Jackson, MS

• China Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• True Gospel Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
• Cynthia Church of Christ Holiness — 0.4 mi away
• Undershepherd Ministry Church — 0.6 mi away
• Greater Northside Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• New Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Mount Sinai Church — 0.7 mi away
• Mount Sinai Church — 0.7 mi away
• Faith Worship & Outreach — 0.8 mi away
• Hyde Park Victory Church — 1 mi away