Seventeenth Street Baptist Church
Seventeenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wichita, KS 67219. It is one of 601 churches in Wichita, and one of 82 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wichita, KS, 67219Seventeenth Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 677 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,872 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 Seventeenth Street 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 53.5%
- Poverty Rate: 47.6% (30.3–65.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 43.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 22.9%
- Unemployment: 15.4% (3.7–27.8%)
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (7.6–21.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Wichita city is served by 333 churches — about one congregation for every 1,152 residents.
Churches near Seventeenth Street Baptist Church
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- North Heights Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Strangers Rest Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Horeb Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away in Wichita, KS, KS
- New Philadelphia Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Strangers Rest Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Gilead Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away