Smallwood Church

The community around Smallwood Church

It takes 6.2 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: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
• Food Insecurity: 22.6%
• Diabetes: 17.4%
• Unemployment: 9.6% (0.4–19.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
• Poverty Rate: 20.2% (11.7–28.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.5–17.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%

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

Churches near Smallwood Church

• Mount Calvary Church — 2.8 mi away in Louisville, MS
• Hinze Church — 2.8 mi away
• Indian Spring Church — 3.2 mi away in Noxapater, MS
• East County Line Church — 3.4 mi away
• Mars Hill Church — 3.5 mi away
• Mars Hill Church — 3.6 mi away
• Saint Pauls Church — 4.1 mi away
• Plattsburg Church — 4.2 mi away in Noxapater, MS
• East Macedonia Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Ethel, MS
• Pleasant Ridge Primitive Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Ethel, MS