Saint Jerome's Roman Catholic Church
Saint Jerome's Roman Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 230 Alexander Avenue in New York, NY 10454. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 186 Catholic congregations in the city.
230 Alexander Avenue, New York, NY, 10454Saint Jerome's Roman Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,375 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New York — 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 Jerome's Roman Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 6,800 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: 53.8%
- Child Poverty: 50.6% (33.6–67.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 44.0% (32.7–55.3%)
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 17.9% (13.4–22.5%)
- Obesity: 38.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Saint Jerome's Roman Catholic Church
- Tercera Iglesia Bautista — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peters Evangelical Lutheran — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Mahanaim NYC — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Iglesia Bautista Misionera — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Seguidores De Jesus Bronx — 0.3 mi away
- St Marys Reformed Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Iglesia Universal — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
- The Congregational Church of North New York UCC — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
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