Saint Leo Church

The community around Saint Leo Church

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand 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 more than a third 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: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Depression: 29.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
• Poverty Rate: 26.8% (16.1–37.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.7%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
• Child Poverty: 28.0% (13.0–43.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Leo Church

• Saint Genevieve Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away in Marksville, LA
• Faith Tabernacle — 1.3 mi away in Marksville, LA
• La Paries Church — 2 mi away
• Vick Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Effie, LA
• Vick Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Saint Paul Church — 4.1 mi away
• Saint James Chapel — 4.5 mi away
• Progressive Church — 5.7 mi away
• Saint Marys Baptist Church — 6 mi away
• Marksville Church of the Nazarene — 6.2 mi away in Marksville, LA