New Zion Church

The community around New Zion Church

It takes 5.8 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 nearly half 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.

• Child Poverty: 69.8%
• Obesity: 53.0%
• Poverty Rate: 46.5%
• Food Insecurity: 44.7%
• Social Isolation: 42.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 32.2%
• Diabetes: 25.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 23.2%
• Unemployment: 17.7% (8.7–26.8%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (8.4–16.2%)

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

Churches near New Zion Church

• Bethlehem Church — 0.7 mi away
• Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Tchula Presbyterian Church — 2.5 mi away
• Holiness Pentecostal Church of Christ — 2.6 mi away
• Mount Sinai Church — 2.9 mi away
• Blanch Chapel — 3.1 mi away
• Rose Bank Church — 3.2 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Horseshoe Chapel — 3.3 mi away
• Tomes Chapel — 3.4 mi away
• Mount Rosies Church — 3.6 mi away