Metropolitan AME Zion Church
Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a African_methodist_episcopal_zion church at 2828 Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, MO 64128. It is one of 784 churches in Kansas City, and one of 2 African_methodist_episcopal_zion congregations in the city.
Serving since 1911
2828 Prospect Avenue, Kansas City, MO, 64128Metropolitan AME Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Metropolitan AME Zion 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 52.0% (34.4–70.0%)
- Obesity: 50.1%
- Food Insecurity: 39.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (2.0–14.7%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.2% (10.8–27.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.9–18.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Kansas City city is served by 493 churches — about one congregation for every 1,000 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan AME Zion Church
- Haven of Rest Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church Of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shammah House Of Worship — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Highland Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away