New Bethel Baptist Church
New Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elizabeth, NJ 07201. It is one of 135 churches in Elizabeth, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elizabeth, NJ, 07201Website: https://newbethelmbc856.org/Home
New Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Bethel Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,400 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.
- Food Insecurity: 35.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.8% (17.6–30.0%)
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (4.6–13.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (11.0–29.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Elizabeth city is served by 60 churches — about one congregation for every 2,261 residents.
Churches near New Bethel Baptist Church
- Saint Michael's Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Hispano Americana — 0.1 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Santa Isabel Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Memorial Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Today's Church NJ — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Temple Church of God and Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Moravian Church — 0.2 mi away