Salem Church Number 1

The community around Salem Church Number 1

It takes 3.4 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 40.7%
• Social Isolation: 37.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
• Food Insecurity: 22.3%
• Diabetes: 15.3%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
• Unemployment: 6.9% (2.1–11.7%)

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

Churches near Salem Church Number 1

• Little Bethany Church — 0.5 mi away
• New Mount Olive Church — 1.6 mi away
• Salem Church Number 3 — 2.6 mi away
• William Chapel — 3.4 mi away
• Galilee Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Collinston, LA
• Loch Arbor Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Monroe, LA
• Salem Church Number 2 — 4.2 mi away
• Collinston Church — 4.4 mi away in Bastrop, LA
• New Friendship Church — 4.6 mi away in Bastrop, LA
• Monroe Chinese Church, Louisiana — 4.8 mi away in Bastrop, LA