Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Mount Vernon Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07108. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07108Mount Vernon Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mount Vernon Baptist Church
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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,600 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 40.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (14.4–37.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (3.4–16.9%)
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (4.9–20.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Mount Vernon Baptist Church
- Newark Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Clinton Avenue Presbyterian — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mathews Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Andrews Church — 0.2 mi away
- Deliverance Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Chosen Generation C.F.C. — 0.2 mi away
- Agape Christian Center Of NJ USA — 0.2 mi away in Princeton, NJ
- Jesus is Lord Catholic Charismatic Renewal Prayer Group — 0.2 mi away