Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Mount Vernon Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waco, TX 76704. It is one of 275 churches in Waco, and one of 43 Baptist congregations in the city.
Waco, TX, 76704Mount Vernon Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 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: 69.9%
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Poverty Rate: 46.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.3%
- Diabetes: 24.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.2% (13.2–27.1%)
- Unemployment: 11.0% (3.1–18.8%)
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Waco city is served by 124 churches — about one congregation for every 1,084 residents.
Churches near Mount Vernon Baptist Church
- Adams Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wayside Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Harvest Assembly — 0.1 mi away
- Living Word COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Macedonia B.C. — 0.2 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Carver Park Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Open Door COGIC — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away