Fort Hancock Baptist Church

Fort Hancock Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 404 Knox Avenue in Fort Hancock, TX 79839. It is one of 4 churches in Fort Hancock.

404 Knox Avenue, Fort Hancock, TX, 79839

Fort Hancock Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 Fort Hancock Baptist Church

It takes 7.5 miles in every direction to gather 80 neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 33.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.8%
  • Diabetes: 16.2%
  • Unemployment: 11.9% (2.9–21.0%)
  • Obesity: 39.6%
  • Depression: 23.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.0% (9.1–28.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.

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