Union Chapel

The community around Union Chapel

It takes 3.2 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: 26.5%
• Diabetes: 18.9%
• Obesity: 42.8%
• Child Poverty: 38.0% (23.8–52.1%)
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
• Poverty Rate: 23.1% (14.4–31.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.5–17.6%)

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

Churches near Union Chapel

• Union Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Red Oak Grove Church — 1.2 mi away in Shannon, MS
• Prairie Mount Church — 2.1 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.2 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
• Pleasant Grove Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in Shannon, MS
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Shannon, MS
• Snow Town Church — 3.4 mi away
• Good Hope Church — 3.5 mi away in Shannon, MS
• New Hope Church — 3.8 mi away
• New Salem Church — 4.3 mi away in Pontotoc, MS