Ballards Chapel

The community around Ballards Chapel

It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about 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.

• Obesity: 42.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Child Poverty: 35.7% (17.6–53.9%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
• Poverty Rate: 23.9% (12.9–34.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.2% (11.2–25.2%)
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Unemployment: 10.5% (2.4–18.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%

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

Churches near Ballards Chapel

• Calvary United Pentecostal — 0 mi away
• Topeka Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Bethany Church — 1 mi away
• Powells Grove Church — 1.7 mi away
• Providence Church — 2.6 mi away
• Jayess Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Divide Methodist Protestant — 3.4 mi away in Monticello, MS
• New Hope Church — 3.9 mi away
• Unity Church — 4.1 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 4.1 mi away