Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Carteret, NJ 07008. It is one of 24 churches in Carteret, and one of 4 Catholic congregations in the city.
Carteret, NJ, 07008Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic 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 Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (9.2–23.4%)
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.9–12.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Carteret borough is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 1,677 residents.
Churches near Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
- Eternal God Christian Church - EGCC. — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Carteret Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hungarian Reformed Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Elias Byzantine Rite Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Family Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Tabernacle Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- People's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Shalomir — 0.3 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Elias Byzantine Rite Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Family Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King Knanaya Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
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