Poor Clares Convent
Poor Clares Convent is a Catholic church at 2111 South Main Street in Rockford, IL 61102. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 7 Catholic congregations in the city.
2111 South Main Street, Rockford, IL, 61102Poor Clares Convent is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,056 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 18,926 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Poor Clares Convent
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 2,200 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: 62.2% (45.6–78.7%)
- Obesity: 52.6%
- Food Insecurity: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.5% (22.3–52.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 19.7%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (4.8–25.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
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 Poor Clares Convent
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Southside Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Apostles Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Miles Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- New Zion — 0.4 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holiness Church of God — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saints Peter and Paul Apostles Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Mary's Oratory — 1.5 mi away
- Saint James Roman Catholic Church — 1.8 mi away