Wallace Temple
Wallace Temple is a church at 9229 South Drexel Avenue in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago.
9229 South Drexel Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60619Find Wallace Temple on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Wallace Temple
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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 93.1%
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Food Insecurity: 43.3%
- Poverty Rate: 37.3% (23.4–51.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.0%
- Unemployment: 22.2% (10.1–34.3%)
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Wallace Temple
- Hosea Temple Church — 0.1 mi away
- RhemaCity Church — 0.1 mi away
- Charity Tabernacle Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehova Witness — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Temple House of God by Christ — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Believers Church — 0.2 mi away