Fifteenth Street Baptist Church
Fifteenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in East Saint Louis, IL 62205. It is one of 65 churches in East Saint Louis, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
East Saint Louis, IL, 62205Fifteenth Street 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 — 71,417 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 Fifteenth Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 more than 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: 100.0%
- Obesity: 56.0%
- Food Insecurity: 55.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.0% (20.4–53.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.3%
- Diabetes: 29.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (2.7–17.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
East St. Louis city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near Fifteenth Street Baptist Church
- Gethsemane Church — 0.4 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- St Stephen Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Ninth Street Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Galilee Central Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Lansdowne Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Bread of Life Christian Church — 0.6 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- First United Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Galilee Central Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Mt Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Southern Mission Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Summit Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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