Gheens Church

The community around Gheens Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather 2,100 neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Obesity: 47.3%
• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Depression: 30.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
• Food Insecurity: 22.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
• Poverty Rate: 17.2% (9.1–25.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
• Diabetes: 14.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
• Unemployment: 7.8% (0.3–15.3%)

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

Churches near Gheens Church

• Saint Anthony of Padua — 1.4 mi away in Gheens, LA
• Saint Anthony Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away in Gheens, LA
• Holy Savior Catholic Church — 4.7 mi away in Lockport, LA
• First Baptist Church Lockport — 4.9 mi away in Lockport, LA
• Victory Life — 5 mi away in Lockport, LA
• Saint Hilary Of Poitiers Church — 5 mi away in Lockport, LA
• Trinity Baptist Church of Mathews, LA — 5.1 mi away in Raceland, LA
• United Pentecostal Church — 5.1 mi away in Raceland, LA
• Lockport Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 5.1 mi away in Lockport, LA
• King of Glory Ministries — 5.1 mi away in Raceland, LA