Alexander Church

The community around Alexander Church

It takes 6.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 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: 68.2%
• Poverty Rate: 34.8% (23.1–46.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
• Food Insecurity: 28.2%
• Diabetes: 20.2%
• Unemployment: 14.8% (3.0–26.9%)
• Obesity: 42.8%
• Social Isolation: 36.6%
• Depression: 27.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Alexander Church

• Trails End Church — 1.7 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 1.9 mi away
• Morning Star Church — 2.5 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Newhope Church — 3.2 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA
• True Vine Church — 3.9 mi away
• Alexandria Church Number 2 — 4.1 mi away
• Faith Missionary Church — 4.1 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Saint Liberty Church — 4.4 mi away
• Friendship Church — 4.4 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Oak Ridge Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away