Dry Bayou Church

The community around Dry Bayou Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 47.1%
• Child Poverty: 44.0% (28.3–59.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 40.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
• Poverty Rate: 36.1% (25.5–46.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 28.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
• Diabetes: 21.8%
• Social Isolation: 38.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
• Unemployment: 10.9% (2.2–19.5%)
• Depression: 25.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%

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

Churches near Dry Bayou Church

• Little Rock Church — 1.6 mi away
• St. John Baptist Church & Cemetery — 3.1 mi away in Evergreen, LA
• Saint Johns Church — 3.2 mi away
• New Light Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Peter Catholic Church — 4.4 mi away in Morrow, LA
• Saint Joseph Church — 4.5 mi away
• First Union Church — 4.6 mi away
• Church of the Little Flower — 4.6 mi away in Evergreen, LA
• Evergreen United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Evergreen, LA
• Bayou Rouge Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Evergreen, LA