Mount Pleasant Number 1 Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Number 1 Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Child Poverty: 85.6%
• Poverty Rate: 31.8% (19.1–44.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 27.3%
• Diabetes: 19.4%
• Obesity: 41.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (5.3–18.4%)

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

Churches near Mount Pleasant Number 1 Church

• Wess Chapel — 0.9 mi away
• Evergreen Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Liberty Church — 2 mi away
• East Louisville Church — 3.2 mi away
• Poplar Flat Church — 3.8 mi away
• Taylor Church — 4.3 mi away
• Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 4.4 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 4.4 mi away
• Louisville Presbyterian Church — 4.4 mi away
• Wesley United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away