Mount Zion Christian Church

The community around Mount Zion Christian Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

• Child Poverty: 80.8%
• Obesity: 48.0%
• Poverty Rate: 38.4% (26.5–50.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 36.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
• Diabetes: 21.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
• Social Isolation: 36.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (9.7–22.9%)
• Unemployment: 10.0% (3.4–16.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Zion Christian Church

• First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Life Changing Christian Otrch — 0.1 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church, Rocky Mount, North Carolina — 0.2 mi away
• Good Shepherd Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
• Mount Zion First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• GUCOD Agape Fellowship Churches of Deliverance, Inc — 0.3 mi away
• St John AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
• Tri-faith Ministries — 0.3 mi away
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away