St. Katharine Drexel Parish
St. Katharine Drexel Parish is a Catholic church at 722 S 12th St in Springfield, IL 62703-1721. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield, and one of 11 Catholic congregations in the city.
Today, St. Katharine Drexel Parish is the most liturgically diverse parish in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois.
722 S 12th St, Springfield, IL, 62703-1721Phone: (217) 753-3768 · Website: https://www.katharinedrexel.com/
St. Katharine Drexel Parish is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,056 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St. Katharine Drexel Parish
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 80.3%
- Obesity: 52.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.8% (23.0–48.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (3.6–18.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Katharine Drexel Parish
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- Lawrence Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Temple Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Love Deliverance Evangelistic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Monroe Street Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- St John A.M.E. Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Pentecost Tabernacle Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception — 0.5 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church — 1.6 mi away
- St. Frances Cabrini Church — 2 mi away
- St. Agnes Catholic Church — 2.2 mi away
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