St Matthew AME Church
St Matthew AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 41124 N 1st St in Ponchatoula, LA 70454-2486. It is one of 50 churches in Ponchatoula.
41124 N 1st St, Ponchatoula, LA, 70454-2486Phone: +19853864667 · Website: https://www.ame-church.com
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The community around St Matthew AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (8.8–28.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthew AME Church
- New Covenant Apostolic Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Full Faith Christian Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Good Hope Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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