El Portico Church
El Portico Church is a church at 142 South 6th Street in Reading, PA 19602. It is one of 137 churches in Reading.
142 South 6th Street, Reading, PA, 19602Website: https://www.elporticoefc.org/
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The community around El Portico 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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: 53.4% (34.4–72.4%)
- Obesity: 46.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.8%
- Poverty Rate: 38.3% (26.6–49.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (6.2–19.6%)
- Depression: 24.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.
Churches near El Portico Church
- Immanuel Evangelical Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Zion Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Rehoboth Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hopewell Mennonite Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lighthouse Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Charis Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bridge to New Life Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Poder de Dios en Acción — 0.2 mi away