Walnut Ridge Baptist Church

The community around Walnut Ridge Baptist Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 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 nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.4%
• Food Insecurity: 25.8%
• Diabetes: 18.2%
• Child Poverty: 38.6% (24.2–53.0%)
• Social Isolation: 35.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
• Poverty Rate: 28.2% (18.9–37.5%)
• Depression: 28.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (1.6–11.8%)

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

Churches near Walnut Ridge Baptist Church

• Saint Lucy Catholic Church — 2.1 mi away in Hodge, LA
• Hodge Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away in Hodge, LA
• North Hodge Assembly of God Church — 2.2 mi away in North Hodge, LA
• Galilee Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Hodge, LA
• Hodge Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Hodge, LA
• Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church - East Hodge — 2.4 mi away in East Hodge, LA
• Hodge United Pentecostal Church — 2.5 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 2.5 mi away in North Hodge, LA
• North Hodge Church of God — 2.8 mi away in North Hodge, LA
• Fellowship Baptist Church — 3 mi away