Red Oak Grove Church

The community around Red Oak Grove Church

It takes 3.1 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 more than 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: 18.3%
• Obesity: 41.6%
• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Child Poverty: 31.1% (18.2–44.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
• Food Insecurity: 24.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
• Poverty Rate: 21.1% (12.1–30.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (5.6–17.4%)
• Unemployment: 6.5% (1.7–11.3%)

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

Churches near Red Oak Grove Church

• Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Okolona, MS
• Union Chapel — 1.2 mi away in Okolona, MS
• Pleasant Grove Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Good Hope Church — 2.2 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.1 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
• Snow Town Church — 3.3 mi away in Okolona, MS
• Prairie Mount Church — 3.4 mi away in Okolona, MS
• Pontocola Church — 3.6 mi away
• Black Oak Church — 4.5 mi away in Okolona, MS