New Light Baptist Church
New Light Baptist Church is a church at 5240 W Chicago St in Detroit, MI 48204. It is one of 1,590 churches in Detroit.
5240 W Chicago St, Detroit, MI, 48204Phone: +13139311111 · Website: http://www.newlightdetroit.com/
New Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Light Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 50.3%
- Food Insecurity: 49.2%
- Poverty Rate: 40.4% (26.0–54.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Unemployment: 12.1% (2.7–23.3%)
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Light Baptist Church
- Ebenezer Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Liberty Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Nardin Park Community Church RCA — 0.2 mi away
- Perseverance Ministries Outreach Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle of Faith International — 0.2 mi away
- Chapel Hill Missionary Baptist Church Family Fun Day — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Deliverance Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Obedient Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Unity Church — 0.4 mi away
- Leviticus Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away