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.
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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