Mount Charity Baptist Church

The community around Mount Charity Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Child Poverty: 73.9%
• Obesity: 49.1%
• Food Insecurity: 46.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 34.7%
• Poverty Rate: 30.7% (16.1–45.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 22.9%
• Diabetes: 22.2%
• Unemployment: 12.2% (0.2–25.4%)
• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (3.7–21.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.

Churches near Mount Charity Baptist Church

• The House of God — 0.1 mi away
• Bibleway Temple for Better Living — 0.1 mi away
• Restore Church — 0.2 mi away
• Jehovah's Witness Linwood Congregation — 0.3 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses--Livernois, Mid-Wyoming, & Rochester Park South — 0.3 mi away
• Clinton Street Greater Bethlehem Temple — 0.3 mi away
• Detroit Temple - The Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
• United House of Prayer For All People — 0.3 mi away
• Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Willow Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away