Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1405 East Monroe Street in Springfield, IL 62703. It is one of 165 churches in Springfield, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
1405 East Monroe Street, Springfield, IL, 62703Phone: +1-217-544-8115
Union Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Union 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 53.9%
- Food Insecurity: 43.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.5% (22.8–46.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Unemployment: 15.6% (7.0–24.1%)
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.4%
- Child Poverty: 26.5% (7.6–45.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 1,462 residents.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Monroe Street Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John A.M.E. Church — 0.1 mi away
- Love Deliverance Evangelistic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Temple Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Catholic Charities — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Worship Deliverance Praise Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- St. Katharine Drexel Parish — 0.4 mi away
- Lawrence Avenue Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.4 mi away