Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third 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.

• Food Insecurity: 26.6%
• Obesity: 43.4%
• Social Isolation: 38.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
• Diabetes: 16.2%
• Unemployment: 9.7% (1.9–17.6%)
• Child Poverty: 23.4% (7.9–38.8%)
• Poverty Rate: 19.8% (11.3–28.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.7–16.9%)

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

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Good Hope Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Oak Ridge Church — 1.7 mi away
• Coldwater Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Goodhope Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Mount Evon Church — 2.5 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Saint Paul Church — 2.6 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Victory Fellowship Church — 2.7 mi away
• Linwood Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Shield of Faith Ministry Church — 3.4 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Pine Grove Church — 4 mi away