University Episcopal Chapel
University Episcopal Chapel is a church in Hammond, LA 70401. It is one of 99 churches in Hammond.
Hammond, LA, 70401University Episcopal Chapel is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 72 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Louisiana — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around University Episcopal Chapel
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 45.1%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (21.2–38.2%)
- Depression: 29.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (3.3–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Hammond city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 498 residents.
Churches near University Episcopal Chapel
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Baptist Student Center — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Albert the Great Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Living Well Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Ghost Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Memorial Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hammond Southern Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Grace Memorial Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 5 mi away in Ponchatoula, LA