Pleasant Olive Baptist Church
Pleasant Olive Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1600 East League Street in Waco, TX 76704. It is one of 275 churches in Waco, and one of 43 Baptist congregations in the city.
1600 East League Street, Waco, TX, 76704Pleasant Olive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Pleasant Olive 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 a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Poverty Rate: 31.0% (17.5–44.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.4% (16.5–36.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Child Poverty: 33.8% (16.2–51.4%)
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waco city is served by 124 churches — about one congregation for every 1,084 residents.
Churches near Pleasant Olive Baptist Church
- Faith Tabernacle Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Spring Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Luke AME Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Toliver Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Charity Chapel Church of God in Christ — 0.8 mi away
- New Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away