Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 32.6%
• Depression: 27.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
• Food Insecurity: 20.1%
• Poverty Rate: 18.7% (11.2–26.2%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
• Diabetes: 14.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (6.3–19.4%)
• Unemployment: 6.3% (1.4–11.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Bear Creek Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Stony Knoll Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Mount Herman Church — 1.7 mi away
• Mount Hermon Baptist Church Dobson — 1.7 mi away
• Fairview Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• New Hope Church — 2.5 mi away in Elkin, NC
• Liberty Primitive Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Copeland Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Double Creek Church — 3.3 mi away
• Little Richmond Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Elkin, NC