Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Peoria, IL 61605. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Peoria, IL, 61605Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,069 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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The community around Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 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: 63.5%
- Obesity: 47.6%
- Food Insecurity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.0% (19.3–48.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.0%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 15.4% (4.6–26.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
- PEACE Church Peoria — 0 mi away
- Lovejoy Church of God In — 0.1 mi away
- Renewed Life Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Blaine Street Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Lutheran Church — 2 mi away in Bartonville, IL
- Saint Peter's Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away in East Peoria, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.8 mi away in East Peoria, IL