Cynthia Bayou Church

The community around Cynthia Bayou Church

It takes 9.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 49.6% (31.9–67.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 34.5% (23.5–45.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
• Food Insecurity: 27.0%
• Diabetes: 18.2%
• Obesity: 41.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Depression: 29.3%
• Unemployment: 9.1% (4.1–14.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.0–18.5%)

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

Churches near Cynthia Bayou Church

• Hall Grove Church — 1.5 mi away
• Eva Church — 2 mi away
• Mayna Church of God — 2.6 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Glade Church — 2.7 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Union Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 4.4 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Parhams Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Saint Peter Church — 5 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Aimwell Church — 5.7 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Monterey Church — 6.3 mi away