Friendship Church

Friendship Church is a church in Merryville, LA 70653. It is one of 17 churches in Merryville.

Merryville, LA, 70653

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The community around Friendship Church

It takes 7.7 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

  • Obesity: 43.2%
  • Social Isolation: 35.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
  • Depression: 27.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.4%
  • Diabetes: 17.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (9.7–23.1%)
  • Unemployment: 8.2% (3.4–13.1%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.1% (12.7–27.4%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%

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

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