Woodlawn Baptist Church
Woodlawn Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1151-1157 East 62nd Street in Chicago, IL 60637. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
1151-1157 East 62nd Street, Chicago, IL, 60637Woodlawn 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 Woodlawn Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Child Poverty: 41.6% (25.7–57.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (22.8–44.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.8%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (9.2–21.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
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 Woodlawn Baptist Church
- Christ Church Chicago — 0.1 mi away
- Anew Church — 0.1 mi away in Oak Lawn, IL
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Concord Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shrine of Christ the King — 0.3 mi away
- St. Gelasius Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- South Side Gospel Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vernon Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hyde Park Union Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Paradise Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away