West New Home Church

The community around West New Home Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Obesity: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Child Poverty: 33.5% (23.1–44.8%)
• Depression: 27.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
• Food Insecurity: 21.2%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
• Poverty Rate: 19.7% (10.1–29.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (1.6–14.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near West New Home Church

• Pentecostal Church — 1.3 mi away
• Friendship Church — 1.8 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 2 mi away
• Faith Missionary Church — 2.6 mi away
• Hegwood Church — 3.4 mi away in Epps, LA
• Morning Star Church — 3.7 mi away
• Midway Church — 3.7 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 4.1 mi away in Epps, LA
• Parkview Church — 4.4 mi away