Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church
Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 1312 Dallas Street in Waco, TX 76704. It is one of 284 churches in Waco, and one of 8 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
1312 Dallas Street, Waco, TX, 76704Phone: (254) 753-6742 · Website: https://stjohnswaco.org/
Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,256 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Texas — 18,926 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 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: 74.1%
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Poverty Rate: 45.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.2%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.6% (14.7–30.4%)
- Unemployment: 13.1% (4.2–22.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Waco city is served by 124 churches — about one congregation for every 1,084 residents.
Churches near Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Macedonia B.C. — 0.4 mi away
- Open Door COGIC — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Harvest Assembly — 0.5 mi away
- Wayside Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Adams Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Zion CME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Cathedral of Faith Church — 0.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Francis on the Brazos Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 2 mi away
- Saint Louis Catholic Church — 2 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Student Center — 2.1 mi away