Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 4.5 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 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.

• Obesity: 40.7%
• Social Isolation: 37.1%
• Depression: 28.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Food Insecurity: 22.6%
• Poverty Rate: 22.1% (13.6–30.7%)
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

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

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• New Morning Glory Church — 1.2 mi away
• Saint Francis de Sales Catholic Church — 2.2 mi away in Echo, LA
• Poland Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Zion Church — 2.5 mi away
• Pine Grove Church — 3.3 mi away
• Latanier Church — 4.9 mi away
• Fifth Ward Church — 5.4 mi away
• Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church — 5.4 mi away in Fifth Ward, LA
• New Morning Glory Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Pineville, LA
• Saint Martin of Tours Catholic Church — 6.7 mi away in Belledeau, LA