Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Child Poverty: 33.4% (18.0–50.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Food Insecurity: 23.7%
• Poverty Rate: 22.7% (12.9–32.5%)
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Obesity: 39.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (7.3–16.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

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

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• Camp Ground Church — 1.4 mi away
• Apostolic Faith Church — 1.6 mi away
• Water Valley SDA Church — 1.9 mi away
• South Hopewell Church — 2.3 mi away in Oxford, MS
• Woodland Hills Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Palestine Church — 2.9 mi away
• Union West Church — 3 mi away in Oxford, MS
• Faith Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Water Valley First Assembly of God — 3.3 mi away
• First Christian Church — 3.3 mi away