Saint Gertrude Church

The community around Saint Gertrude Church

It takes 3.9 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 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: 42.3%
• Social Isolation: 36.0%
• Child Poverty: 30.7% (13.6–47.9%)
• Depression: 29.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
• Food Insecurity: 21.4%
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
• Poverty Rate: 21.4% (12.3–30.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

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

Churches near Saint Gertrude Church

• The Holy Ghost Chapel — 4 mi away in Morse, LA
• Saint Paul Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• Lake Arthur First United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Lake Arthur, LA
• Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church — 4.7 mi away in Lake Arthur, LA
• Mount Triumph Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 5 mi away
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 5 mi away
• Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 5.2 mi away
• Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 5.3 mi away in Mermentau, LA
• Saint Theresa Church — 5.3 mi away in Gueydan, LA