Sharon Church

The community around Sharon Church

It takes 6.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Diabetes: 18.4%
• Obesity: 44.2%
• Social Isolation: 35.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
• Food Insecurity: 24.5%
• Poverty Rate: 24.0% (15.5–32.4%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.4% (11.2–25.5%)
• Unemployment: 8.3% (2.4–14.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
• Child Poverty: 25.0% (10.5–40.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sharon Church

• Boykin Church — 1.1 mi away
• Raleigh United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
• Sardis Church — 4.8 mi away in Morton, MS
• First Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
• Open Bible Tabernacle — 4.9 mi away
• Mt Pisgah Mb Church — 4.9 mi away
• Crossroads Church — 5.1 mi away
• Salem Church — 5.2 mi away
• East Side Church — 5.5 mi away
• Goodwater Church — 5.5 mi away in Forest, MS