Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church is a Greek_catholic church at 104 East Bertsch Street in Lansford, PA 18232. It is one of 7 churches in Lansford.
Saint John the Baptist Church was founded in 1892 by Slavic immigrants who emigrated from the Carpathian Mountain region of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire before the outbreak of WWI.
Serving since 1892
104 East Bertsch Street, Lansford, PA, 18232Phone: +1 570-645-2640 · Website: http://www.stjohnsbyzantinecatholicchurch.org/
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The community around Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
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- Unemployment: 20.8% (13.1–28.4%)
- Child Poverty: 35.6% (17.3–53.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (15.4–32.8%)
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Lansford borough is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 688 residents.
Churches near Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Slovak Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- Hope of Christ Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away in Summit Hill, PA