Black Oak Church

The community around Black Oak Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 27.9%
• Diabetes: 19.6%
• Obesity: 43.7%
• Child Poverty: 38.5% (21.7–55.5%)
• Social Isolation: 38.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
• Poverty Rate: 24.5% (14.9–34.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.4–17.3%)
• Unemployment: 6.2% (1.2–11.3%)

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

Churches near Black Oak Church

• Poplar Springs Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away in Shannon, MS
• Snow Town Church — 1.4 mi away
• Pine Grove Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Shannon, MS
• Mount Union Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• St. Alban's Anglican Church — 3 mi away in Pine Grove Mills, PA
• Blackwood Grove Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Shannon Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away in Shannon, MS
• Family Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Shannon, MS
• First Baptist Church of Shannon — 3.6 mi away in Shannon, MS
• Highs Chapel CME Church — 3.7 mi away in Shannon, MS