Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 6.2 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Child Poverty: 42.7% (28.4–57.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
• Food Insecurity: 32.3%
• Diabetes: 19.7%
• Obesity: 44.0%
• Social Isolation: 37.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
• Poverty Rate: 29.8% (18.0–41.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
• Depression: 26.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
• Unemployment: 7.2% (1.9–13.2%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• New Daughter Church — 0.3 mi away
• Evangeline Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Mount Bula Church — 2.3 mi away
• Old Daughters Church — 2.9 mi away
• Morning Star Church — 3.2 mi away
• House of Prayer Church — 3.4 mi away in Ferriday, LA
• Mount Moriah Church — 3.5 mi away
• Saint James Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4.1 mi away
• Chantilly Church — 4.1 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA