Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rockford, IL 61101. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61101Shares a ministry location with Mount Zion Of Rockford Illinois.
Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,418 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 Mount Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 more than 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: 78.2%
- Obesity: 58.5%
- Food Insecurity: 57.8%
- Poverty Rate: 57.8% (42.5–73.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 42.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 35.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 31.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.2%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (4.7–21.1%)
- Depression: 24.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (6.3–23.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Mount Zion Of Rockford Illinois — 0 mi away
- Rock Valley Friends Meeting House — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Outreach — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ephesians Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ephesians Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hispanicamerican Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away