Saint James Roman Catholic Church
Saint James Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 428 North 2nd Street in Rockford, IL 61107. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 6 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
428 North 2nd Street, Rockford, IL, 61107Website: http://www.stjamesrockford.com/
Saint James Roman Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,056 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 18,927 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 Saint James Roman Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Child Poverty: 40.5% (25.8–54.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.7% (24.6–42.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (6.3–21.4%)
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Saint James Roman Catholic Church
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saints Constantine & Helen Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Spirit of Truth Church — 0.4 mi away
- Centennial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Unity Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Stonebridge Church Rockford — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hope Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Mary's Oratory — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Peter Cathedral — 1 mi away
- Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Apostles Roman Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away