Mount Vernon Church

The community around Mount Vernon Church

It takes 5.3 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Food Insecurity: 24.2%
• Poverty Rate: 22.1% (12.3–31.8%)
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Unemployment: 10.2% (2.6–18.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Vernon Church

• Noxapater Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Noxapater Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Jesus Name Church — 1.4 mi away
• First Pentecostal Church — 1.5 mi away
• Hight Church — 2.9 mi away
• Campground Church — 3.9 mi away in Louisville, MS
• Mount Pleasant Church — 4.1 mi away
• Union Ridge Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
• Liberty Church — 4.8 mi away
• Flower Ridge Church — 4.9 mi away in Louisville, MS