Atchafalaya Church

The community around Atchafalaya Church

It takes 7.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
• Food Insecurity: 30.8%
• Diabetes: 21.2%
• Obesity: 41.8%
• Social Isolation: 37.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.9%
• Unemployment: 9.4% (2.4–16.3%)
• Depression: 26.4%
• Poverty Rate: 17.4% (10.3–24.6%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.7%

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

Churches near Atchafalaya Church

• True Light Church — 0.8 mi away
• Little Zion Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 2.9 mi away
• New Zion Church — 3.3 mi away in Batchelor, LA
• Greater Saint Marks Church — 3.6 mi away in Batchelor, LA
• New Zion Church — 3.6 mi away
• First Pentecostal Church of Bayou Rouge — 4.7 mi away in Palmetto, LA
• United Pentecostal Church — 4.8 mi away in Palmetto, LA
• Mount Moriah Church — 5.4 mi away in Batchelor, LA
• Mount Salem Church — 5.7 mi away in Batchelor, LA