New Zion Baptist Church
New Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rockford, IL 61102. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61102New 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 — 71,417 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 New 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 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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: 67.8% (50.4–85.2%)
- Obesity: 53.1%
- Food Insecurity: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.7%
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (18.6–50.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 17.5% (4.8–30.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near New Zion Baptist Church
- New Zion — 0.1 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Apostles Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holiness Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Southside Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the Carpenter United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Israel of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Poor Clares Convent — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Zion — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away