New Zion Baptist Church
New Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lawton, OK 73501. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lawton, OK, 73501New Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,598 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 71,417 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 New Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 74.6%
- Obesity: 55.6%
- Poverty Rate: 51.0%
- Food Insecurity: 46.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 24.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.3%
- Unemployment: 21.4% (13.2–29.6%)
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (7.4–19.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lawton city is served by 125 churches — about one congregation for every 603 residents.
Churches near New Zion Baptist Church
- Johnson Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Casa De Oracion — 0.4 mi away
- Open Door Church of God-Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Un Neuvo Amanecer Con Cristo Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Elmo Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away