East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church

East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chattanooga, TN 37404. It is one of 478 churches in Chattanooga, and one of 83 Baptist congregations in the city.

Chattanooga, TN, 37404

East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 East Twenty-third Street Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 67.4%
  • Obesity: 46.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 43.4% (32.4–54.5%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 34.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.5%
  • Diabetes: 18.8%
  • Depression: 28.2%
  • Unemployment: 11.7% (4.6–18.7%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Chattanooga city is served by 236 churches — about one congregation for every 791 residents.

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