Zion Baptist Church
Zion Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07108. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07108Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 706 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,417 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 Zion 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,500 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: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Child Poverty: 40.5% (26.0–57.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 35.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.5% (21.5–47.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
- Unemployment: 16.7% (6.9–26.6%)
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (4.6–17.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Zion Baptist Church
- Holy Temple Freewill Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- First Newborn Tabernacle Church — 0.1 mi away
- Refuge Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Redemption Church Of God — 0.1 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Light Church of God in Christ Jesus — 0.1 mi away
- The United House of Prayer for All People — 0.1 mi away
- Newark Ebenezer Ghana Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Vision Christian Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Holy Temple Freewill Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Clear-Way Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Born Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away