Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1516 East 30th Street in Lorain, OH 44055. It is one of 119 churches in Lorain, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
1516 East 30th Street, Lorain, OH, 44055Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,418 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 Mount Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 49.2% (30.0–68.4%)
- Obesity: 47.6%
- Food Insecurity: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.8% (27.9–47.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (2.5–19.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lorain city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 1,166 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- La Iglesia de Dios — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Noel Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hungarian Reformed Church — 0.4 mi away
- MICEC Lorain — 0.4 mi away
- New Beginnings Church of God “2019” — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ebenezer MI — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal M.I. Enenezer — 0.6 mi away
- La Inglesia De Dios — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away