Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Child Poverty: 47.0% (28.2–65.8%)
• Obesity: 42.3%
• Social Isolation: 34.6%
• Poverty Rate: 29.0% (17.7–40.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
• Food Insecurity: 22.9%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (10.4–24.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

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

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• Adams Church — 0.9 mi away in Summit, MS
• Temble Hill Church — 2 mi away
• Mount Gilead Primitive Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Mars Hill Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Summit, MS
• Smithdale Church of God In Christ — 4 mi away
• Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• Mt Zion Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
• Mount Olive Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
• Concord Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
• Church of God — 5.5 mi away