Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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.

• Unemployment: 13.8% (5.2–22.4%)
• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.0%
• Poverty Rate: 23.7% (13.0–34.5%)
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Depression: 26.7%
• Child Poverty: 24.1% (12.2–37.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Saint Marks Church — 2.5 mi away
• Pilgrim Church — 3 mi away
• Bueche Church — 3.3 mi away
• Our Lady of the Lake — 3.4 mi away in Erwinville, LA
• Saint Pauls Church — 3.4 mi away
• Fontania Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Saint Alma Church — 3.5 mi away in Rougon, LA
• Saint Ambrose Church — 3.5 mi away
• True Light Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Lakeland, LA
• Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 4.5 mi away in Lakeland, LA