Jerusalem Church

The community around Jerusalem Church

It takes 5.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, 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: 52.7% (36.9–68.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
• Poverty Rate: 33.0% (22.8–43.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 30.8%
• Diabetes: 21.0%
• Unemployment: 14.8% (3.4–26.2%)
• Obesity: 43.5%
• Social Isolation: 38.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Jerusalem Church

• Oak Grove Church — 1.6 mi away
• Eudora Church — 1.8 mi away
• Saint Liberty Church — 2.8 mi away in Oak Ridge, LA
• Fellowship Church — 3 mi away in Bastrop, LA
• Olive Grove Church — 3.2 mi away in Bastrop, LA
• Newhope Church — 3.4 mi away
• Sweet Home Church — 3.4 mi away in Bastrop, LA
• True Vine Church — 3.5 mi away in Oak Ridge, LA
• Horseshoe Church — 4.3 mi away
• Saint Matthew Church Number 2 — 4.8 mi away in Bastrop, LA