Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 41.8%
• Social Isolation: 36.4%
• Poverty Rate: 23.0% (11.7–34.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.2%
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.8–17.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
• Unemployment: 6.3% (1.5–11.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Felder UMC — 0.8 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Pricedale, MS
• Spring Beulah Church — 2.4 mi away
• New Zion Church — 2.9 mi away
• Bogue Chitto Church — 3.1 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 3.2 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
• Bogue Chitto Church — 3.6 mi away in Tylertown, MS
• Mars Hill Church — 3.7 mi away
• Friendship Church — 4 mi away in McComb, MS
• Union Primitive Church — 4.2 mi away