Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Obesity: 41.6%
• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
• Food Insecurity: 24.0%
• Poverty Rate: 22.1% (14.2–29.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
• Depression: 24.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (8.2–18.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (1.8–13.2%)

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Beulah Church — 0.1 mi away
• The Well PPHC — 0.4 mi away
• Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
• Pamplico First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Pamplico United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Pamplico Pentecostal Holiness Church — 1.4 mi away
• Maxwell Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• The House of God Church — 1.6 mi away
• Prospect Church — 1.6 mi away
• Victory In Christ United Church — 1.7 mi away