Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 21.2%
• Diabetes: 16.8%
• Social Isolation: 31.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
• Child Poverty: 23.4% (7.5–40.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 18.7% (10.8–26.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.2–19.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (2.5–12.6%)

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Saint Johns Church — 1 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Saint Matthews Church — 2.2 mi away
• Great Swamp Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• New Zion Church — 3.4 mi away
• Carey Hill Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Ridgeland Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Faith Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Lovely Hill Baptist Church — 4 mi away