Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 6.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.

• Child Poverty: 69.8%
• Obesity: 51.4%
• Social Isolation: 42.5%
• Food Insecurity: 40.9%
• Poverty Rate: 39.6% (29.0–50.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
• Diabetes: 24.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
• Unemployment: 10.8% (4.4–17.2%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Rose Hill Church — 2.1 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Trinity Church — 2.8 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Saint Johns Church — 2.9 mi away
• Trinity MBC Church — 3 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Holiness Pentecostal Church of Christ — 3.2 mi away
• Zion Hill Church — 3.2 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Tchula Presbyterian Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• East Jones Chapel — 3.8 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Annie York Church — 3.8 mi away