Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 7.3 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 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: 46.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
• Food Insecurity: 32.5%
• Diabetes: 21.1%
• Social Isolation: 39.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
• Poverty Rate: 29.0% (17.4–40.5%)
• Depression: 27.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (4.4–18.2%)

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

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Saint Helena Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away in Cypremort Point, LA
• Pentecostal Church — 3.6 mi away
• St Matthews Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
• Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
• Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 8 mi away in Four Corners, LA
• St John Baptist Church — 8.2 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
• Calvary Pentecostal Church — 8.6 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
• Saint Nicholas Catholic Church — 8.8 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
• Saint Peter United Methodist Church — 9.1 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
• Saint Matthews Church — 9.3 mi away in Jeanerette, LA