Martin Luther King Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Baptist Church is a church at 1243 S 18th St in Harrisburg, PA 17104-2811. It is one of 197 churches in Harrisburg.
1243 S 18th St, Harrisburg, PA, 17104-2811Phone: +17175257584 · Website: http://MLKBC.org/
Shares a ministry location with Trinity Church.
Martin Luther King Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Martin Luther King 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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.6% (37.5–74.6%)
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Poverty Rate: 42.7% (30.8–54.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.3%
- Unemployment: 22.1% (8.6–35.6%)
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.9%
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Martin Luther King Baptist Church
- Trinity Church — 0 mi away
- Kingdom Life Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Misionera de Jesucristo Dios es Bueno Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- At the Cross Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- City Of Refuge Evangelism (C.O.R.E.) — 0.4 mi away
- From The Heart Church Ministries Of Harrisburg Pa Inc — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Pentecost USA — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.6 mi away in Swatara Twp, PA