Salem Church Number 3

The community around Salem Church Number 3

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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 37.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
• Food Insecurity: 23.0%
• Diabetes: 15.7%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Child Poverty: 23.7% (7.9–39.5%)
• Poverty Rate: 17.4% (10.5–24.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (2.2–13.0%)

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

Churches near Salem Church Number 3

• Little Bethany Church — 2.1 mi away
• Salem Church Number 1 — 2.6 mi away
• New Mount Olive Church — 2.8 mi away
• Loch Arbor Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Monroe, LA
• Travelers Rest Church — 3.9 mi away in Oak Ridge, LA
• Battle Chapel — 4.4 mi away in Oak Ridge, LA
• William Chapel — 5.9 mi away
• Cedar Grove Church — 6.2 mi away in Oak Ridge, LA
• Swartz First Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Monroe, LA
• New Bethany Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in Oak Ridge, LA