Eastern Star M B Church

The community around Eastern Star M B Church

It takes 3.6 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 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: 46.5%
• Child Poverty: 42.6% (26.4–59.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
• Food Insecurity: 32.2%
• Diabetes: 21.1%
• Social Isolation: 38.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
• Poverty Rate: 28.8% (19.2–38.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (7.3–16.9%)

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

Churches near Eastern Star M B Church

• Church of God of Prophecy — 0 mi away
• St Theresa's Church Catholic Center — 0.3 mi away
• Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
• North Gatlin Street Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
• Okolona First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Okolona First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
• First Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
• Saint Theresa Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
• Grace Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away