Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 6.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 49.6% (31.9–67.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 34.0% (21.7–46.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
• Food Insecurity: 32.8%
• Diabetes: 20.0%
• Obesity: 44.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
• Depression: 27.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
• Unemployment: 7.3% (2.6–12.5%)

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Moss Grove Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Saint Peter Church — 2.7 mi away
• Aimwell Church — 2.8 mi away
• Glade Church — 3.4 mi away
• Hall Grove Church — 3.7 mi away in Monterey, LA
• Lismore Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Friendship Church — 4.3 mi away
• Cynthia Bayou Church — 4.4 mi away in Monterey, LA
• Bethel Church — 4.6 mi away
• Parhams Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away