Shady Grove Church

The community around Shady Grove Church

It takes 5.9 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: 61.9%
• Poverty Rate: 33.2% (22.0–44.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
• Food Insecurity: 27.5%
• Diabetes: 19.6%
• Unemployment: 14.1% (2.8–25.5%)
• Obesity: 42.4%
• Social Isolation: 36.6%
• Depression: 27.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.4%

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

Churches near Shady Grove Church

• Morning Star Church — 1.9 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Alexander Church — 1.9 mi away
• Alexandria Church Number 2 — 2.7 mi away
• New Zion Church — 3.1 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Alexandria #1 Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Oak Ridge Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Aimwell Church — 3.4 mi away
• New Bethany Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Trails End Church — 3.5 mi away
• Faith Missionary Church — 3.6 mi away in Rayville, LA