Mount Vernon Church

The community around Mount Vernon Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Obesity: 40.1%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Social Isolation: 30.2%
• Depression: 26.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
• Poverty Rate: 21.3% (13.5–29.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (7.8–17.8%)
• Unemployment: 6.1% (1.4–10.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Vernon Church

• Cochran Church — 1.4 mi away
• Alarka Church of God — 1.6 mi away
• Deep Gap Church — 1.6 mi away
• Alarka Missionary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• East Alarka Church — 2.5 mi away
• Dan Springs Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Assembly of God New Life — 4.2 mi away
• Sawmill Hill Church — 4.4 mi away
• Cold Springs Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
• Jackson Line Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away