Salem Lutheran Church
Salem Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Rockford, IL 61104. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 23 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61104Website: http://www.salemrockford.org/
Salem Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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The community around Salem Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 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: 72.5%
- Obesity: 51.9%
- Poverty Rate: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 48.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (7.5–19.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (6.2–19.7%)
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 Salem Lutheran Church
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- South Park Covenant Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rockford Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Centennial Multicultural United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Broadway United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gentle Shepherd Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Outreach Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Living Faith Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away