Elijah Church
Elijah Church is a church in LA 71008.
LA, 71008Find Elijah Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Elijah Church
It takes 9.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.6% (38.1–73.1%)
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Food Insecurity: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (14.2–31.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.2–19.0%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.3–10.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Elijah Church
- Mount Villa Church — 0.9 mi away
- Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Bienville — 3.1 mi away in Bienville, LA
- Mount Zion Church — 4.9 mi away
- Driskill Church — 6.1 mi away
- Mount Kingdom Church — 6.4 mi away
- Sandhill Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in Quitman, LA
- Bear Creek Church — 6.7 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Jonesboro, LA
- Friendship Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away