Mount Olive Baptist Church

Mount Olive Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1100 Chicon Street in Austin, TX 78702. It is one of 752 churches in Austin, and one of 104 Baptist congregations in the city.

Serving since 1891

1100 Chicon Street, Austin, TX, 78702

Website: http://www.mtolivebcaustin.org/

Mount Olive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,417 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 Mount Olive Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 47.6% (29.1–66.1%)
  • Depression: 24.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.5% (7.5–33.4%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.9–18.2%)
  • Unemployment: 6.2% (1.4–11.0%)

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

Austin city is served by 318 churches — about one congregation for every 2,992 residents.

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