Palmer Church

The community around Palmer Church

It takes 2.6 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 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: 42.5%
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
• Food Insecurity: 21.4%
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Child Poverty: 22.6% (4.6–40.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (6.4–20.9%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (1.5–13.7%)

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

Churches near Palmer Church

• Hickory Grove Church — 0.9 mi away
• West Ripley Church — 1.6 mi away
• Beech Hill Church of Christ — 1.7 mi away
• Adkins Chapel — 1.8 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS
• Saint Matthew Church — 1.9 mi away
• St. James Church Of God In Christ — 2 mi away
• Mount View Church — 2.1 mi away
• First Evangelical Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• St Paul United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Unity Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away