New Mount Olive Church

The community around New Mount Olive Church

It takes 5.5 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 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. 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: 41.7%
• Social Isolation: 35.2%
• Child Poverty: 30.6% (19.1–44.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.8%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Depression: 25.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
• Poverty Rate: 17.1% (7.3–26.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%

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

Churches near New Mount Olive Church

• Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
• St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
• Grosse Tete Church — 0.6 mi away
• Sunnyside Apostolic Church — 0.8 mi away in Rosedale, LA
• Rosedale Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away in Rosedale, LA
• Agape Word Church — 1.9 mi away in Rosedale, LA
• Hartzell Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Rosedale, LA
• Rosedale Church — 2.2 mi away in Rosedale, LA
• Nativity Church — 2.2 mi away in Rosedale, LA
• Rose Hill Church — 3.4 mi away in Rosedale, LA