Church of Sacred Heart
Church of Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic church in Camden, NJ 08104. It is one of 172 churches in Camden, and one of 8 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
Camden, NJ, 08104Church of Sacred Heart is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 606 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New Jersey — 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 Church of Sacred Heart
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.
- Food Insecurity: 53.1%
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.4%
- Poverty Rate: 38.3% (22.5–54.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.0%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 16.4% (5.4–27.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Child Poverty: 27.7% (11.2–44.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Camden city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 516 residents.
Churches near Church of Sacred Heart
- Holy Bethel Pentecostal Temple — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Sanctuary Church of the Abiding Presence — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Spirit Cathedral — 0.4 mi away
- Ferry Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St Bartholomew's Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Bartholemew's Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- St Joseph's Church — 0.8 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Fatima Church — 0.9 mi away
- Convent of the Domincan Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary — 1.3 mi away