Mount Villa Church

The community around Mount Villa Church

It takes 9.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 49.7% (33.3–66.2%)
• Obesity: 45.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
• Food Insecurity: 28.9%
• Diabetes: 20.6%
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
• Depression: 27.4%
• Poverty Rate: 22.3% (13.9–30.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (3.8–18.3%)
• Unemployment: 6.7% (2.5–10.9%)

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

Churches near Mount Villa Church

• Elijah Church — 0.9 mi away
• Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Bienville — 3.9 mi away in Bienville, LA
• Mount Zion Church — 5.4 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 6 mi away in Jonesboro, LA
• Sandhill Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away in Quitman, LA
• Friendship Baptist Church — 6 mi away
• Driskill Church — 6.6 mi away
• Mount Olive Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away
• Mount Temple Methodist Church — 7 mi away