Asbery African Methodist Episcopal Church

The community around Asbery African Methodist Episcopal Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 26.7%
• Obesity: 43.3%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
• Unemployment: 8.3% (1.9–14.8%)
• Depression: 24.9%
• Poverty Rate: 19.2% (10.3–28.1%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.5–19.9%)
• Transportation Barriers: 13.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Asbery African Methodist Episcopal Church

• Sacred Heart Chapel — 1.1 mi away in Carville, LA
• Progressive Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 1.3 mi away in White Castle, LA
• Mount Calvary Church — 1.5 mi away in Saint Gabriel, LA
• Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church — 1.6 mi away in White Castle, LA
• Brazile Church — 1.7 mi away
• Greater Progressive Baptist — 1.7 mi away in White Castle, LA
• City of Refuge Church — 1.9 mi away in White Castle, LA
• Saint John Church — 2.1 mi away
• Saint Paul Church — 2.1 mi away in White Castle, LA