Alexandria Church Number 2

The community around Alexandria Church Number 2

It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 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: 54.3% (39.9–69.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 33.6% (23.0–44.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
• Food Insecurity: 29.4%
• Diabetes: 20.1%
• Unemployment: 15.0% (3.3–26.7%)
• Obesity: 42.9%
• Social Isolation: 37.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
• Depression: 27.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.3%

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

Churches near Alexandria Church Number 2

• Alexandria #1 Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Oak Ridge Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• New Bethany Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
• Cedar Grove Church — 1.7 mi away
• Aimwell Church — 2.4 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 2.7 mi away
• True Vine Church — 2.7 mi away
• Newhope Church — 3.7 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA
• Alexander Church — 4.1 mi away
• New Zion Church — 4.3 mi away in Rayville, LA