Mount Pleasant Church
Mount Pleasant Church is a church at 100 Montgomery St in Newark, NJ 07103-3316. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
100 Montgomery St, Newark, NJ, 07103-3316Phone: +19736427771 · Website: http://www.mtvernonbc.com
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The community around Mount Pleasant Church
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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 76.1%
- Food Insecurity: 49.0%
- Poverty Rate: 44.1% (31.5–56.7%)
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.0%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.5–12.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Pleasant Church
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Haitian Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wells Cathedral Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Israel Memorial AME church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Universal Aurora — 0.3 mi away
- Independent Church of God and Saints of Christ — 0.3 mi away