Blessed Martin Church

The community around Blessed Martin Church

It takes 10.9 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: 26.1%
• Obesity: 42.6%
• Social Isolation: 38.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
• Depression: 25.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (4.2–18.0%)
• Unemployment: 7.7% (0.6–15.3%)

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

Churches near Blessed Martin Church

• Saint Thomas Catholic Church — 3.2 mi away in Pointe a la Hache, LA
• Hope Chapel — 5.2 mi away
• St John Missionary Baptist Church, Pheonix, La — 5.2 mi away in Braithwaite, LA
• Saint Joseph Church — 5.7 mi away
• Saint John Church — 5.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 6 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 6.3 mi away
• Saint Jude Church — 6.4 mi away in Port Sulphur, LA
• St Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Port Sulphur, LA
• City Price Baptist Church — 7.7 mi away in Port Sulphur, LA