The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a Mormon church in Taft, CA 93268. It is one of 36 churches in Taft.
Taft, CA, 93268The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is part of the Latter Day Saint movement family of churches in The American Church Story. 347 congregations of the Latter Day Saint movement family gather across California — 4,546 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the other bodies descending from Joseph Smith's 1830 restoration teach that the New Testament church was restored through a modern prophet, and they read the Book of Mormon alongside the Bible. Latter-day Saints describe themselves as Christians; most trinitarian churches do not recognize their baptism. This map records that disagreement rather than settling it, and lists these congregations because they are part of the religious life of every place they are in.
Find The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 49.2% (33.3–65.1%)
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Food Insecurity: 23.3%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (13.4–30.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (2.4–10.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Taft city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 461 residents.
Churches near The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
- West Hills Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Community Christian Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal M.I. Taft — 0.7 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away