Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 548 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 117 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70802Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 households fear the power or water being shut off. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 31.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (17.5–42.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- The Way of Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Sunlight Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Temple Deliverance Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Little Rock Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Gate Church at Addis — 0.3 mi away in Port Allen, LA
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church BR — 0.3 mi away
- Interdenomination Love Outreach Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away