Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Schenectady, NY 12303. It is one of 102 churches in Schenectady, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Schenectady, NY, 12303Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mount Pleasant 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Poverty Rate: 49.2% (35.4–62.9%)
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Food Insecurity: 46.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (5.9–18.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Schenectady city is served by 64 churches — about one congregation for every 1,075 residents.
Churches near Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Global Prophetic Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- FDTchurch — 0.2 mi away
- The Bridge Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Deliverance Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Schenectady House Of Prayer Church Of God Of Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Faith Christian Center — 0.4 mi away