Leaf Church

The community around Leaf Church

It takes 5.4 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: 12.2% (4.3–20.0%)
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0% (9.8–28.2%)
• Obesity: 39.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
• Child Poverty: 22.9% (6.4–39.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.7%
• Poverty Rate: 16.8% (7.5–26.2%)
• Diabetes: 14.3%

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

Churches near Leaf Church

• Mount Rose Church — 0.4 mi away
• New Life Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Cox Chapel — 1.2 mi away
• Salem Church — 1.9 mi away
• Mount Nebo Church — 3.7 mi away
• Grace Church — 5.5 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Grace Church, Vernal — 5.8 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Midway Church — 6.1 mi away in Leakesville, MS
• Mount Sinai Church — 6.5 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Holmes Missionary Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Lucedale, MS