Saint Marks Church

The community around Saint Marks Church

It takes 3.5 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 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: 25.0%
• Obesity: 41.5%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
• Depression: 28.6%
• Poverty Rate: 26.5% (12.8–40.3%)
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Unemployment: 9.6% (3.4–16.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Marks Church

• Saint Ambrose Church — 1.6 mi away
• Saint Alma Church — 1.6 mi away in Rougon, LA
• Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away in Lakeland, LA
• Mount Zion Church — 2.5 mi away
• True Light Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Lakeland, LA
• Our Lady of the Lake — 3.9 mi away in Erwinville, LA
• Mount Pilgrim Church — 4 mi away
• Bueche Church — 4.1 mi away
• Saint Pauls Church — 4.4 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 4.4 mi away