Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Mt. Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 105 Hill Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 80 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
105 Hill Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Website: https://mtzionwb.org/
Shares a ministry location with Vida Nueva Church.
Mt. Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mt. Zion 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 34.1% (21.7–46.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (4.7–15.3%)
- Depression: 23.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Mt. Zion Baptist Church
- Vida Nueva Church — 0 mi away
- St. Anthony's Marionite Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostal Nuevo Comienzo — 0.3 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Paso de Fe — 0.3 mi away
- Albright United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unity of NEPA — 0.4 mi away