East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church
East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chattanooga, TN 37404. It is one of 470 churches in Chattanooga, and one of 79 Baptist congregations in the city.
Chattanooga, TN, 37404East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 67.4%
- Obesity: 46.3%
- Poverty Rate: 43.4% (32.4–54.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 34.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Depression: 28.2%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (4.6–18.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chattanooga city is served by 236 churches — about one congregation for every 791 residents.
Churches near East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church
- Philadelphia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater New Home Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista de Chattanooga — 0.3 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith United Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Original Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Harris Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Evangelio Completo — 0.4 mi away