New Bethel Baptist Church
New Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 548 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 117 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70802New Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Bethel Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 households fear the power or water being shut off. That is 2,200 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 15.4% (8.3–22.6%)
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (15.4–33.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near New Bethel Baptist Church
- Little Rising Sun Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Ark Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away