The Newman Center
The Newman Center is a Catholic church in Pittsburg, KS 66762. It is one of 42 churches in Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, KS, 66762Shares a ministry location with St. Pius X Catholic.
The Newman Center is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 242 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Kansas — 19,012 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 The Newman Center
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 45.5% (32.5–58.5%)
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 25.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (7.1–19.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Pittsburg city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 2,172 residents.
Churches near The Newman Center
- St. Pius X Catholic — 0 mi away
- South Broadway Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Timmons Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Meadowside Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cornerstone Family Church — 0.8 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- All Saints Anglican Church — 2.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 4.3 mi away in Frontenac, KS
- St Bridget's Catholic Church — 10.2 mi away in Scammon, KS