Mount Ridge Baptist Church
Mount Ridge Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 217-225 South Washtenaw Avenue in Chicago, IL 60612. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
217-225 South Washtenaw Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60612Mount Ridge Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Mount Ridge 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,500 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: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 18.6% (9.5–27.8%)
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Poverty Rate: 27.7% (16.3–39.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Mount Ridge Baptist Church
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- Mt Vernon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Greater Rock Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- City Church International — 0.1 mi away
- Landmark Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mary F Butler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Love and Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wells Temple of Deliverance — 0.2 mi away
- Good Hope Freewill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Vernon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Greater Rock Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Landmark Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Hope Freewill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away