1st Baptist Church of Merigold
1st Baptist Church of Merigold is a church at 410 W South St in Merigold, MS 38759-9705. It is one of 5 churches in Merigold.
410 W South St, Merigold, MS, 38759-9705Phone: +16627482043 · Website: http://www.firstcathedral.org
1st Baptist Church of Merigold is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around 1st Baptist Church of Merigold
It takes 4.1 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 about a third 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.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Child Poverty: 41.2% (26.1–56.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (19.9–37.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.5–15.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near 1st Baptist Church of Merigold
- Merigold Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lampton Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Merigold United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bright Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 2 mi away
- Bright Star Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Morning Star Church — 2.3 mi away
- St Mark Church of God — 2.5 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Pilgrim Rest Church — 2.5 mi away