Bougere Church

The community around Bougere Church

It takes 8.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 49.6% (31.9–67.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 34.9% (24.2–45.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
• Food Insecurity: 30.7%
• Diabetes: 18.9%
• Obesity: 43.2%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.9% (8.3–23.4%)
• Unemployment: 11.5% (5.9–17.2%)
• Depression: 23.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.2%

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

Churches near Bougere Church

• Saint James Church — 0.9 mi away
• Stonefield Church — 5.6 mi away
• Bougere Church — 8 mi away
• Church of Christ — 8.3 mi away in Monterey, LA
• New Era Baptist Church — 8.4 mi away in Monterey, LA
• Eva United Pentecostal Church — 8.5 mi away in Monterey, LA
• Lismore Baptist Church — 9 mi away in Jonesville, LA
• First Baptist Church — 9.4 mi away in Monterey, LA
• Monterey Baptist Church — 9.4 mi away in Monterey, LA
• Temple Church of Monterey — 9.7 mi away in Monterey, LA