Willard Avenue Baptist Church
Willard Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Kansas City, KS 66106. It is one of 326 churches in Kansas City, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Kansas City, KS, 66106Willard Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Willard Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.8%
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (15.2–36.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (2.9–14.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Child Poverty: 25.6% (6.2–45.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (7.7–18.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Kansas City city is served by 142 churches — about one congregation for every 1,094 residents.
Churches near Willard Avenue Baptist Church
- Mount Zion AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Argentine Mennonite Church — 0.4 mi away
- Metropolitan Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. John the Evangelist — 0.5 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emerson Park Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Argentine Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Argentine Church Of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia Torre Fuerte — 0.7 mi away