Dry Ridge Church

The community around Dry Ridge Church

It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Obesity: 40.9%
• Child Poverty: 38.3% (21.6–55.0%)
• Social Isolation: 36.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
• Food Insecurity: 22.8%
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
• Poverty Rate: 18.8% (8.0–29.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Dry Ridge Church

• Dry Creek Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 2.7 mi away
• Stonewall Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Peter Church — 3.5 mi away in Magee, MS
• Oak Grove Church — 4.4 mi away in New Hebron, MS
• Macedonia Church — 4.4 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• North Silver Creek Church — 4.4 mi away in New Hebron, MS
• James Chapel — 5 mi away
• Saint Marys Church — 5.5 mi away in New Hebron, MS