Higher Praise Family Worship Center
Higher Praise Family Worship Center is a church at 506 18th Ave in Newark, NJ 07103-1759. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
506 18th Ave, Newark, NJ, 07103-1759Phone: +18622350074 · Website: https://higherpraisefwc.org/
Shares a ministry location with Rose of Sharon Baptist Church.
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The community around Higher Praise Family Worship Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 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.
- Child Poverty: 66.2% (48.0–84.5%)
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 38.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (14.1–39.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (3.2–16.7%)
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (8.2–20.9%)
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Higher Praise Family Worship Center
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