Mound Chapel

The community around Mound Chapel

It takes 7.2 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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.

• Obesity: 48.8%
• Child Poverty: 47.2% (30.5–64.2%)
• Social Isolation: 43.2%
• Food Insecurity: 42.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 31.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.1%
• Unemployment: 16.1% (2.6–29.6%)
• Poverty Rate: 27.6% (15.8–39.4%)
• Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
• Diabetes: 17.6%
• Depression: 24.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1% (12.3–20.5%)

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

Churches near Mound Chapel

• Pleasant Green Church — 1.4 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• St John Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• Morningstar Church — 3.9 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• Melbourne Church — 4 mi away
• Church of Christ — 4.5 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 4.7 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• New Light Church — 5.4 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• Olivedell Church — 5.4 mi away in Lake Providence, LA
• Seventh Star Church — 5.5 mi away
• Pilgrim Rest Church — 5.7 mi away in Lake Providence, LA