Saint Peters Church

The community around Saint Peters Church

It takes 3.6 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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: 41.4%
• Child Poverty: 36.6% (20.2–53.2%)
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Depression: 27.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
• Poverty Rate: 25.8% (14.1–37.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.5%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Unemployment: 10.8% (3.7–18.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Peters Church

• St Peter Baptist Church — 0 mi away in Port Allen, LA
• Erwinville Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Port Allen, LA
• United Pentecostal Church — 1.6 mi away in Port Allen, LA
• First Church — 1.6 mi away in Port Allen, LA
• True Light Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Lakeland, LA
• Sharon Church — 3.2 mi away
• Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 3.4 mi away in Lakeland, LA
• Greater Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Port Allen, LA
• Calvary Church — 3.6 mi away
• Our Lady of the Lake — 3.6 mi away in Erwinville, LA