Brown Chapel

The community around Brown Chapel

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about 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: 18.2%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Food Insecurity: 23.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (7.3–24.1%)
• Obesity: 38.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
• Poverty Rate: 20.2% (13.0–27.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

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

Churches near Brown Chapel

• Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Bethel Church — 0.5 mi away
• Spring Hill Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Old Spring Hill Church — 1.5 mi away
• De Soto Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Saint Johns Church — 2.5 mi away
• Church of God — 3.3 mi away
• Northrup Chapel — 3.4 mi away in Quitman, MS
• Shiloh Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Quitman, MS
• Corinth Church — 4 mi away in Quitman, MS