Oakridge Christian Church

The community around Oakridge Christian Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

• Social Isolation: 37.1%
• Child Poverty: 33.5% (20.6–47.0%)
• Obesity: 36.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
• Food Insecurity: 17.9%
• Poverty Rate: 17.9% (10.9–24.9%)
• Diabetes: 14.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.2–16.4%)

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

Tupelo city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 592 residents.

Churches near Oakridge Christian Church

• Unitarian Universalist Congregation — 0.1 mi away
• First Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Parkway Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
• Saint Luke United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Grace Space — 0.6 mi away
• First United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
• The Church at Trace Crossing — 0.6 mi away
• First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
• Palestine Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Nettleton, MS