Saint Peter's Church

The community around Saint Peter's 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 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: 56.4%
• Poverty Rate: 31.0% (21.8–40.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
• Food Insecurity: 27.6%
• Diabetes: 19.1%
• Obesity: 41.8%
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Depression: 27.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
• Unemployment: 10.2% (3.7–16.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.1–16.5%)

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

Churches near Saint Peter's Church

• St Peter Church of Christ Holiness — 1.3 mi away
• King Church — 1.7 mi away
• Hope Well Church — 2.2 mi away in Sicily Island, LA
• Holly Grove Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Stafford Point Church — 4.2 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
• Pine Hill Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Sicily Island, LA
• Central Church — 4.6 mi away
• Pine Hill Church — 4.6 mi away in Sicily Island, LA
• Locust Hill Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 4.7 mi away in Sicily Island, LA