Saint Nicholas of Myra Mission

Saint Nicholas of Myra Mission is a Roman Catholic church at 21420 Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans, LA 70129. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 44 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.

21420 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70129

Phone: (504) 662-5339

Saint Nicholas of Myra Mission is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 578 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Louisiana — 18,926 across the United States on The Church Map.

From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.

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The community around Saint Nicholas of Myra Mission

It takes 7.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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: 49.0% (29.8–68.2%)
  • Poverty Rate: 31.1% (19.0–43.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 30.6%
  • Diabetes: 20.0%
  • Social Isolation: 39.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
  • Obesity: 36.2%
  • Depression: 26.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (4.1–23.6%)
  • Unemployment: 6.1% (1.7–10.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.

New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.

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