Cox Chapel

The community around Cox Chapel

It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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.

• Unemployment: 12.7% (4.7–20.8%)
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5% (9.6–27.5%)
• Obesity: 39.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Child Poverty: 23.9% (7.1–40.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
• Food Insecurity: 19.1%
• Poverty Rate: 17.2% (7.6–26.8%)
• Diabetes: 14.5%

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

Churches near Cox Chapel

• Salem Church — 0.9 mi away
• Leaf Church — 1.2 mi away
• Mount Rose Church — 1.2 mi away
• New Life Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Mount Nebo Church — 4.4 mi away
• Sweetwater Church — 5.8 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Grace Church — 6.3 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Grace Church, Vernal — 6.6 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Mount Sinai Church — 6.7 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Saint James Church — 7 mi away in Lucedale, MS