St. John's Slovak Lutheran Church
St. John's Slovak Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1 East Abbott Street in Lansford, PA 18232. It is one of 7 churches in Lansford, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
1 East Abbott Street, Lansford, PA, 18232St. John's Slovak Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around St. John's Slovak Lutheran 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: 20.7% (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: 22.5%
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 St. John's Slovak Lutheran Church
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.4 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 — 0.8 mi away in Summit Hill, PA