Brown Church

The community around Brown Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 29.2%
• Obesity: 43.6%
• Social Isolation: 39.2%
• Child Poverty: 37.9% (21.4–54.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
• Poverty Rate: 22.6% (11.2–34.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
• Diabetes: 15.2%
• Depression: 25.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
• Unemployment: 7.7% (1.8–14.1%)

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

Churches near Brown Church

• Gifield Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Gilfield Church — 0.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Port Allen — 1.2 mi away
• Mount Bethel Church — 1.6 mi away
• Second Baptist Church of West Baton Rouge — 1.6 mi away
• Charismatic Fellowship Church — 1.8 mi away
• Saint Catherine Church — 1.9 mi away
• Christ Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• New Life Apostolic — 2.6 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 2.6 mi away