Shady Grove Church

The community around Shady Grove 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 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: 43.8%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
• Poverty Rate: 23.0% (12.3–33.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.8%
• Diabetes: 16.0%
• Child Poverty: 29.8% (12.0–47.6%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
• Unemployment: 6.6% (2.5–10.9%)

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

Churches near Shady Grove Church

• Shady Grove Church — 1 mi away
• Union Church — 2 mi away
• Hunters Chapel — 2.2 mi away
• Beech Hill Church — 2.3 mi away
• Beulah Hill Church — 2.8 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS
• Central Church — 2.9 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS
• Mount View Church — 3 mi away
• Saint Matthew Church — 3.2 mi away
• Curtis Creek Church — 3.2 mi away in Ashland, MS
• Old Shelby Church — 3.5 mi away in Ashland, MS