Zion Baptist Church
Zion Baptist Church is a church at 1601 E Laurel St in Springfield, IL 62703-3247. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield.
1601 E Laurel St, Springfield, IL, 62703-3247Phone: +12175286113 · Website: https://gettozion.org/
Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Zion Baptist Church
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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 79.9%
- Obesity: 54.5%
- Poverty Rate: 45.9%
- Food Insecurity: 45.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Unemployment: 20.9% (8.1–33.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Zion Baptist Church
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- House of Prayer For All People — 0.2 mi away
- St Katharine Drexel St — 0.2 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Brown Street Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Pentecost Tabernacle Church — 0.4 mi away