Parson Hill Church

The community around Parson Hill Church

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Diabetes: 19.2%
• Obesity: 43.7%
• Child Poverty: 35.5% (16.0–55.0%)
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
• Food Insecurity: 22.7%
• Poverty Rate: 22.2% (13.5–30.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.7–16.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

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

Churches near Parson Hill Church

• Parson Hill Church — 2.3 mi away
• Whittington Church — 2.6 mi away
• New Zion Church — 2.6 mi away
• Bethel Church — 2.7 mi away
• Zion Hill Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• New Salem Church — 3.1 mi away
• Clayhill Church — 3.2 mi away
• New Salem Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 4 mi away in Gloster, MS
• Smyrna Church — 4.1 mi away in Gloster, MS