Bay Creek Church

The community around Bay Creek Church

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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (11.1–26.8%)
• Obesity: 39.5%
• Depression: 24.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
• Food Insecurity: 17.1%
• Poverty Rate: 16.3% (7.6–24.9%)
• Diabetes: 13.6%

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

Churches near Bay Creek Church

• Greenville Church — 2.2 mi away
• Caney Church — 3.4 mi away
• Pine Grove Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Purvis, MS
• Pleasant Home Church — 5.5 mi away in Purvis, MS
• Pinebur Church — 5.6 mi away in Columbia, MS
• Baxterville Church of God — 6 mi away
• Baxterville Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away
• Corinth Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in Purvis, MS
• Good Hope Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in Purvis, MS
• Midway Church — 8.2 mi away in Sumrall, MS