New Zion Church

The community around New Zion Church

It takes 6.8 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live 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: 47.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
• Poverty Rate: 31.1% (18.6–43.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 29.7%
• Diabetes: 22.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
• Unemployment: 9.1% (1.2–17.1%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.8%

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

Churches near New Zion Church

• Jerusalem Church — 2.4 mi away in Magnolia, MS
• Shady Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Tickfaw Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 3.9 mi away
• Gillsburg Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Osyka, MS
• Robinson Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• Webb Chapel — 4.7 mi away
• Pilgrim Rest Church — 4.8 mi away in Magnolia, MS
• Mount Zion Church — 4.9 mi away