Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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: 48.4%
• Food Insecurity: 36.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 30.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.4%
• Diabetes: 20.8%
• Social Isolation: 37.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
• Poverty Rate: 24.9% (14.6–35.1%)
• Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
• Unemployment: 11.5% (3.7–19.3%)
• Child Poverty: 27.4% (13.3–43.0%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (5.7–23.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Kansas City city is served by 493 churches — about one congregation for every 1,000 residents.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

• Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
• Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church — 0.1 mi away
• Good Samaritan Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
• Peace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Bowers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
• The Evangelist Temple — 0.4 mi away
• Starlight Non-Denominational Church — 0.4 mi away
• Morningstar Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
• Mount Calvary Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away