Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 5.1 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 52.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
• Poverty Rate: 30.8% (22.1–39.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 28.0%
• Diabetes: 19.3%
• Obesity: 42.0%
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
• Unemployment: 10.0% (3.4–16.6%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Life Changing Ministries — 0.5 mi away
• New Zion Church — 1.1 mi away
• Holly Grove Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Wisner, LA
• Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Wisner, LA
• Norris Hill Church — 3.2 mi away
• Central Church — 3.4 mi away in Wisner, LA
• FirstPentecostal Wisner — 3.5 mi away in Wisner, LA
• New Light Church — 3.5 mi away in Wisner, LA
• New Alpha and Omega Church — 3.6 mi away in Wisner, LA
• Holly Grove Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Wisner, LA