Shackleford Church

The community around Shackleford Church

It takes 10.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 46.0%
• Child Poverty: 40.5% (22.8–58.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
• Food Insecurity: 29.3%
• Diabetes: 20.2%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
• Poverty Rate: 25.6% (15.1–36.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
• Unemployment: 9.4% (2.8–16.1%)
• Depression: 25.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.3%

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

Churches near Shackleford Church

• Shackleford Church — 2.3 mi away
• Saint Peter Church — 2.6 mi away
• Saint John Church — 4.1 mi away
• Saint Peter Church — 5.5 mi away
• Pleasant Green Church — 5.9 mi away
• Broadroom Church — 6.2 mi away
• Bethany Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away
• Pasture Green Church — 6.4 mi away in Tallulah, LA
• Church of Christ — 7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Newellton, LA