Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

• Obesity: 47.6%
• Child Poverty: 41.6% (30.1–53.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
• Poverty Rate: 30.5%
• Food Insecurity: 29.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.5%
• Diabetes: 18.5%
• Social Isolation: 32.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (3.1–10.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• St Pauls Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
• Calvary Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
• St Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Faith Assembly of God — 0.7 mi away
• Second Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• New Hope Gospel Church — 0.9 mi away in Saint Pauls, NC
• Great Marsh Church — 0.9 mi away
• St. Pauls Community Church — 1 mi away