St. Mark United Methodist Church
St. Mark United Methodist Church is a church at 534 S Market St in Opelousas, LA 70570-5030. It is one of 53 churches in Opelousas.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
534 S Market St, Opelousas, LA, 70570-5030Phone: +13379488537 · Website: http://www.umc.org
St. Mark United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around St. Mark United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Food Insecurity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 41.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.1% (16.6–47.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 12.0% (2.1–22.7%)
- Child Poverty: 38.4% (23.8–53.6%)
- Depression: 24.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Mark United Methodist Church
- Hope Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bellevue Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cornerstone Bible Church of Opelousas — 0.4 mi away
- Epiphany Opelousas — 0.5 mi away
- Spirit of Elijah Life Institute Church — 0.5 mi away
- Louisiana Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Breaker Anointing International Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Live Oak Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away