Pontocola Church

The community around Pontocola Church

It takes 3.2 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 more than 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: 40.0%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
• Food Insecurity: 21.5%
• Diabetes: 16.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Poverty Rate: 17.0% (8.9–25.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (5.6–17.7%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
• Unemployment: 6.1% (1.7–10.7%)

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

Churches near Pontocola Church

• Palmetto Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Tupelo, MS
• Fellowship Church — 2.7 mi away in Tupelo, MS
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Valley Grove Church — 3 mi away in Tupelo, MS
• Good Hope Church — 3.2 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Palmetto Church — 3.4 mi away in Tupelo, MS
• Oak Valley Church — 3.5 mi away in Tupelo, MS
• Palmetto Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Tupelo, MS
• Red Oak Grove Church — 3.6 mi away