Sixth Avenue Baptist Church
Sixth Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Knoxville, TN 37917. It is one of 582 churches in Knoxville, and one of 69 Baptist congregations in the city.
Knoxville, TN, 37917Sixth Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Sixth Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Depression: 31.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (16.1–30.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (10.9–23.1%)
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.2–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near Sixth Avenue Baptist Church
- Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Refuge Praise Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Fourth United Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Knoxville House of Faith — 0.5 mi away
- CRC Knox — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church (Knoxville, Tennessee) — 0.5 mi away
- Knoxville Connect Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gillespie Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away