Union Church

The community around Union Church

It takes 9.4 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: 34.8% (23.9–45.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
• Food Insecurity: 27.6%
• Obesity: 42.3%
• Social Isolation: 36.0%
• Depression: 29.0%
• Diabetes: 17.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
• Unemployment: 11.0% (5.6–16.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (7.1–20.8%)
• Transportation Barriers: 13.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Union Church

• Eva Church — 1.2 mi away
• Hall Grove Church — 2.7 mi away
• Parhams Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Cynthia Bayou Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mayna Church of God — 3.7 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Monterey Church — 4.5 mi away
• Church of Christ — 4.8 mi away
• Lismore Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• Monterey Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away