Highland Park Baptist Church
Highland Park Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hattiesburg, MS 39401. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 46 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hattiesburg, MS, 39401Shares a ministry location with Cornerstone Baptist Church and New Covenant Baptist Church.
Highland Park Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Highland Park 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. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.
- Social Isolation: 46.6%
- Poverty Rate: 45.0%
- Food Insecurity: 39.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.7% (11.2–24.2%)
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (3.7–9.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Hattiesburg city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 689 residents.
Churches near Highland Park Baptist Church
- New Covenant Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Southern Miss Lighthouse Campus Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Wesley Foundation — 0.5 mi away
- Baptist Student Union — 0.5 mi away
- HubCity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Thirty-Eighth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Danforth Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- HubCity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Thirty-Eighth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Ekklesia Hattiesburg — 1 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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