Rocky Springs Church

The community around Rocky Springs Church

It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 50.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.3%
• Food Insecurity: 35.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
• Social Isolation: 39.4%
• Poverty Rate: 22.9% (12.8–32.9%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.1%
• Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Child Poverty: 25.1% (9.7–40.5%)

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

Churches near Rocky Springs Church

• Tranquil Church — 2.3 mi away in Yazoo City, MS
• Piney Springs Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Morning Star Church — 3.8 mi away in Eden, MS
• Eden Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Eden, MS
• Pleasant Hills Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Yazoo City, MS
• Pleasant Hill Church — 4.1 mi away in Yazoo City, MS
• Shiloh Church — 4.4 mi away in Benton, MS
• Crossroads Church — 4.4 mi away in Yazoo City, MS
• New Hope M.B Church — 4.8 mi away in Benton, MS
• Midway Church — 4.9 mi away in Benton, MS