Baskin Chapel

The community around Baskin Chapel

It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 12.0% (5.3–18.7%)
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Depression: 28.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Food Insecurity: 22.1%
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
• Child Poverty: 25.7% (12.6–38.8%)
• Poverty Rate: 18.2% (11.6–24.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Baskin Chapel

• Union Church — 2 mi away
• Mangham Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Mangham, LA
• Church of Christ — 2.1 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Baskin Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Baskin, LA
• New Bethel Church — 2.4 mi away
• First Baptist Church Archibald — 2.8 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Union Valley Church — 3.1 mi away
• Cedar Church — 3.1 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4 mi away
• Baskin Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Baskin, LA