Riverside Missionary Baptist Church

Riverside Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2601 Powell Avenue in Monroe, LA 71203. It is one of 195 churches in Monroe, and one of 44 Baptist congregations in the city.

2601 Powell Avenue, Monroe, LA, 71203

Website: https://riversidemissionarybc.org/

Riverside Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.

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The community around Riverside Missionary Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

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  • Child Poverty: 67.4% (49.6–85.3%)
  • Obesity: 57.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 56.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 56.7%
  • Social Isolation: 43.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 40.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 35.6%
  • Transportation Barriers: 28.9%
  • Diabetes: 27.2%
  • Unemployment: 9.6% (2.1–17.1%)
  • Depression: 23.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1% (10.6–18.3%)

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

Monroe city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 472 residents.

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