Poor Clares Convent
Poor Clares Convent is a Catholic church at 2111 South Main Street in Rockford, IL 61102. It is one of 262 churches in Rockford, and one of 6 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.
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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