Hays Chapel

The community around Hays Chapel

It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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.

• Poverty Rate: 30.4% (18.4–42.3%)
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Depression: 30.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
• Food Insecurity: 23.0%
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Obesity: 40.0%
• Child Poverty: 30.0% (13.6–46.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

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

Churches near Hays Chapel

• Saint Winfred Church — 1.2 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 1.3 mi away
• Macedonia Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Effie, LA
• Hillside Church — 2.5 mi away in Deville, LA
• Riverside Church — 3.1 mi away
• Star Light Church — 3.8 mi away in Marksville, LA
• Starlight Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Marksville, LA
• Hopewell Church — 3.9 mi away
• New Morning Glory Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Pineville, LA
• Saint Catherine Church — 4.4 mi away in Marksville, LA