New Zion Church

The community around New Zion Church

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Obesity: 45.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
• Poverty Rate: 32.3% (21.5–43.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 31.3%
• Diabetes: 23.1%
• Social Isolation: 34.7%
• Child Poverty: 34.2% (21.6–46.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (9.0–22.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near New Zion Church

• Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
• Miracle Temple Family Fellowship — 1.3 mi away
• Bethlehem Apostolic Church — 1.6 mi away
• Kemper Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• True Evidence Ministries of Lake View — 1.7 mi away
• Lake View United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Lake View — 2 mi away
• Bear Swamp Church — 2.8 mi away
• Strong Tower Ministries Inc. — 4.1 mi away in Dover, DE
• Fork Church — 4.3 mi away