Union Church

The community around Union Church

It takes 5.5 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: 12.5% (5.5–19.5%)
• Social Isolation: 35.2%
• Depression: 28.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
• Food Insecurity: 21.1%
• Diabetes: 15.9%
• Obesity: 38.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
• Child Poverty: 22.1% (8.8–35.5%)
• Poverty Rate: 16.3% (10.0–22.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Union Church

• Union Valley Church — 1.1 mi away
• Baskin Chapel — 2 mi away
• Baskin Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Baskin, LA
• Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Pleasant Hall Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Bethel Church — 3 mi away
• Friendship Church — 3.1 mi away
• Mangham Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Mangham, LA
• New Bethel Church — 4.1 mi away
• Union Church — 4.2 mi away