New Morning Star Baptist Church

The community around New Morning Star Baptist Church

It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.

• Obesity: 44.3%
• Social Isolation: 36.4%
• Depression: 29.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
• Food Insecurity: 24.9%
• Diabetes: 15.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
• Child Poverty: 25.8% (8.3–43.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 19.6% (9.8–29.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%

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

Churches near New Morning Star Baptist Church

• Saint Philomena Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away in Labadieville, LA
• New Belmont Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Labadieville, LA
• New Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Napoleonville, LA
• Christ Church, Napoleonville Louisiana — 3.3 mi away in Napoleonville, LA
• Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 3.8 mi away
• St Paul Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Napoleonville, LA
• St. Peter Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
• Morning Star Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• St John Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Napoleonville, LA
• Mount Carmel Church — 4.7 mi away