Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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: 45.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
• Food Insecurity: 30.7%
• Diabetes: 21.3%
• Social Isolation: 38.0%
• Child Poverty: 33.4% (17.7–49.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
• Unemployment: 11.8% (5.7–17.8%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.8% (13.8–27.7%)
• Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (5.9–18.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Phalti Church — 1.9 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Harmony Church — 2 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Rock Hill Church — 3 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Mount Zion Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.8 mi away
• Whitesand Church — 3.9 mi away
• Lone Star United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Collins, MS
• Sleigo Presbyterian Church — 4.2 mi away in Collins, MS
• Oakvale Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Sure Anchor Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Collins, MS