Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35901. It is one of 185 churches in Gadsden, and one of 52 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35901Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 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: 84.9%
- Obesity: 54.7%
- Food Insecurity: 44.0%
- Poverty Rate: 41.3% (28.0–54.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.4%
- Diabetes: 25.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.6% (11.8–29.4%)
- Unemployment: 16.6% (5.1–28.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Henry Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Union Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gadsden City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grants Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away