New Zion Baptist Church
New Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shreveport, LA 71106. It is one of 505 churches in Shreveport, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shreveport, LA, 71106Website: http://www.churchfinder.com/churches/la/shreveport/new-zion-baptist-church
New Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (19.8–38.8%)
- Depression: 27.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (3.1–16.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.
Churches near New Zion Baptist Church
- Clearview Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gospel Light Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- John 3:16 Church — 0.4 mi away
- The New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Davis Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Temple Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mary Springhill AME Church — 0.6 mi away
- Paradise Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oakdale Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Union Spring Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away