Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church West
Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church West is a Baptist church at 1255 South Ashland Avenue in Chicago, IL 60608. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
1255 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60608Website: http://zionhillwest.com/
Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church West is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church West
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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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: 78.9%
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (23.6–45.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (2.4–16.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.1–16.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church West
- Greater St Stephenson M.B.C — 0.1 mi away
- New Garden Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- No Limit Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Near West Vineyard Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life Changers International Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Basil Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- No Limit Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Cross Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away