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

• Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Noxapater Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Noxapater Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Mt Vernon Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Jesus Name Church — 1.4 mi away
• The Way Community Church of Louisville, MS — 1.5 mi away in Louisville, MS
• First Pentecostal Church — 1.5 mi away
• Noxapater United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Piney Grove & Maple Spring United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Louisville, MS
• Hight Church — 2.9 mi away