Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elizabeth, NJ 07201. It is one of 135 churches in Elizabeth, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elizabeth, NJ, 07201Union Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 728 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Union Baptist 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. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,300 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: 36.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (4.3–14.4%)
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Child Poverty: 22.3% (7.5–37.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (11.8–28.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Elizabeth city is served by 60 churches — about one congregation for every 2,261 residents.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Greater Mount Teman Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Jesucristo Es El Senor — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Fanourios Greek Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Peniel Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- The Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Haitian Bethany Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Cranford-Elizabethtown — 0.6 mi away
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