New Mount Calvary Church

The community around New Mount Calvary Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

• Social Isolation: 35.4%
• Child Poverty: 30.8% (22.9–39.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 24.8%
• Diabetes: 15.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
• Unemployment: 11.2% (0.5–21.9%)
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
• Depression: 25.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
• Poverty Rate: 20.0% (12.1–27.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near New Mount Calvary Church

• Saint Phillip Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• First Mount Olive Church — 1.8 mi away
• Ebenezer Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Darrow, LA
• Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church — 2.9 mi away in Darrow, LA
• First Emmanuel Church — 3.4 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Smoke Bend — 3.5 mi away
• Second Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Hopeful Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Darrow, LA
• St Luke AME Church — 3.6 mi away
• St Mathews Full Gospel B.C. — 3.6 mi away