On-a-Tree Church

The community around On-a-Tree Church

It takes 13.5 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 45.4%
• Child Poverty: 40.4% (28.7–52.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 33.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.4%
• Diabetes: 20.5%
• Unemployment: 15.5% (10.6–20.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%

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