Greater Pleasant Green Baptist Church

The community around Greater Pleasant Green 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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,300 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: 29.9%
• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
• Obesity: 39.6%
• Poverty Rate: 17.9% (6.6–29.1%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
• Unemployment: 7.2% (2.0–12.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.

Churches near Greater Pleasant Green Baptist Church

• God's House Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
• HJC Holy Jerusalem Church — 0.1 mi away
• King's Dominion International Church — 0.2 mi away
• Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit — 0.3 mi away
• Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Morgan Park — 0.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Commending Love Church of God & Christ — 0.3 mi away
• Morgan Park Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
• Arnett Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
• Universal Hagars Spiritual Church — 0.4 mi away