Independent Church

The community around Independent Church

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.6% (15.3–25.8%)
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
• Food Insecurity: 23.0%
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Unemployment: 9.1% (3.7–14.5%)
• Obesity: 37.2%
• Poverty Rate: 16.7% (10.9–22.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

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

Churches near Independent Church

• Mount Patient Church — 1.7 mi away
• Tyro Church — 2 mi away
• Tyro Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Thyatira Church — 2.2 mi away
• Thyatira Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 2.7 mi away
• Wyatte Baptist Family Life Center — 3.9 mi away
• Harris Chapel — 3.9 mi away
• Wyatte Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Ebenezer Church — 5.5 mi away in Como, MS