New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
New Prospect Missionary 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 Prospect Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 31.7% (19.8–43.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 16.7% (8.9–24.6%)
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Depression: 26.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Ark Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away