Mount Pilgrim Church

The community around Mount Pilgrim 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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.

• Obesity: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 22.5%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Unemployment: 8.9% (2.1–15.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
• Depression: 26.2%
• Poverty Rate: 18.0% (8.1–27.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pilgrim Church

• St Peter African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away in New Roads, LA
• Salvation Church — 4 mi away
• Saint Marks Church — 4 mi away
• Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 4.1 mi away in New Roads, LA
• St Paul's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 4.1 mi away in New Roads, LA
• New Roads Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in New Roads, LA
• Saint John Orthodox Church — 4.4 mi away in New Roads, LA
• Saint Mary Catholic Church — 4.5 mi away in New Roads, LA
• Greater St Peter Baptist — 4.5 mi away in New Roads, LA
• Saint Augustine Catholic Church — 4.6 mi away in New Roads, LA