Saint Joseph Catholic Church
Saint Joseph Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 600 State Street in Schenectady, NY 12305. It is one of 112 churches in Schenectady, and one of 12 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
600 State Street, Schenectady, NY, 12305Phone: +1 518-374-4466 · Website: http://www.rcda.org/churches/StJosephSchenectady
Saint Joseph 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 Joseph Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 69.9%
- Obesity: 46.9%
- Food Insecurity: 39.6%
- Poverty Rate: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 16.0% (5.6–26.4%)
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Schenectady city is served by 64 churches — about one congregation for every 1,075 residents.
Churches near Saint Joseph Catholic Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- CityReach Church Schenectady — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Dominion Grace Church — 0.1 mi away
- Seed of Abraham — 0.2 mi away
- Refreshing Spring Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Duryee Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Adalbert Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Anthony Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Luke's Roman Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
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