Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is a Catholic church at 1220 First Avenue in Asbury Park, NJ 07712. It is one of 43 churches in Asbury Park, and one of 3 Catholic congregations in the city.
We strive to understand the varied cultures of our school community and respond to their needs with the compassion of the Gospels.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School is a place of learning where staff and children are respected for their cultural diversity, accepted as individuals, and nurtured with loving care.
1220 First Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ, 07712Phone: (732) 775-8989 · Website: http://www.olmcapnj.org
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 611 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New Jersey — 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 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third 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.
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (10.0–21.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.1% (8.8–25.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.9%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Asbury Park city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
- Light of the World Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Vida Abundante — 0.2 mi away
- Triumphant Life — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Miracle World Outreach Ministries Inc — 0.2 mi away
- Asbury Neptune Evangel Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury Evangelistic Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Good Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury Park Deliverance Evangelistic Center Inc. — 0.3 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Missionaries of Charity — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Rose Roman Catholic Church — 2.8 mi away in Belmar, NJ
- Holy Innocents Church — 3.3 mi away in Neptune Twp, NJ
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