St. Edward's Baptist Church
St. Edward's Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 702 Montopolis Drive in Austin, TX 78741. It is one of 752 churches in Austin, and one of 104 Baptist congregations in the city.
702 Montopolis Drive, Austin, TX, 78741St. Edward's Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 St. Edward's Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 75.4% (56.3–94.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 38.2% (23.9–52.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.8% (12.6–33.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Depression: 24.7%
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.
Churches near St. Edward's Baptist Church
- Vision of Hope Church — 0.1 mi away
- Austin Central Hispana Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Dolores Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Morning Glory Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Glad Tidings Church — 0.6 mi away in Leander, TX
- Victory Outreach Church — 0.7 mi away
- United Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Jesus Is Alive Ministries — 1 mi away
- St. Mary's Cathedral — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Onion Creek Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church of Austin — 1.5 mi away
- Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Betania Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away