Saint Stephen's Roman Catholic Church
Saint Stephen's Roman Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Perth Amboy, NJ 08861. It is one of 77 churches in Perth Amboy, and one of 4 Catholic congregations in the city.
Perth Amboy, NJ, 08861Website: http://www.parishesonline.com/scripts/HostedSites/Org.asp?ID=6209
Saint Stephen's Roman Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 611 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New Jersey — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Stephen's Roman Catholic 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 about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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: 37.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 33.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 30.2% (21.3–39.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
- Unemployment: 15.9% (8.1–23.8%)
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Child Poverty: 33.9% (16.1–51.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (12.7–32.9%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Perth Amboy city is served by 36 churches — about one congregation for every 1,534 residents.
Churches near Saint Stephen's Roman Catholic Church
- Iglesia de Evangelización Misionera Jóvenes Cristianos Perth amboy — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Christian Church Inc — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Pentecost USA Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ministerio Cristiano Remanente Fiel NJ — 0.3 mi away
- One Accord Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- St. Spiridon Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- University Heights Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jesus The King Coptic Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- La Asuncion Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
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