St John Paul II Parish
St John Paul II Parish is a Roman Catholic church at 5830 Simon Street in Detroit, MI 48212. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 28 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
5830 Simon Street, Detroit, MI, 48212Shares a ministry location with Transfiguration Parish.
St John Paul II Parish is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 748 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Michigan — 18,926 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 St John Paul II Parish
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 52.2% (39.0–65.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 47.9%
- Poverty Rate: 43.5% (30.2–56.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 18.9% (6.7–31.1%)
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near St John Paul II Parish
- Transfiguration Parish — 0 mi away
- Church of God of Baldwin — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Concord Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Andrews Ukrainian Orthodox church — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Concord Mssnry Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Redemptive Love Christian Center — 0.7 mi away
- Full Gospel Church Sons of God — 0.8 mi away
- Victory Christian Center Church — 0.8 mi away in Hamtramck, MI
- True Love Christian Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- Our Lady Queen of Apostles — 0.8 mi away in Hamtramck, MI
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