Wilmer Avenue Baptist Church
Wilmer Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Anniston, AL 36201. It is one of 207 churches in Anniston, and one of 64 Baptist congregations in the city.
Anniston, AL, 36201Wilmer Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Wilmer Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 49.7%
- Food Insecurity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 24.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (12.7–31.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (7.4–22.3%)
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.1–13.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Anniston city is served by 89 churches — about one congregation for every 318 residents.
Churches near Wilmer Avenue Baptist Church
- Rest Haven Missionary Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- McCoy United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Temple United Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Refuge II Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Edgewood Church — 0.3 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Temple Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Miracle Prayer House — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Rest Haven Missionary Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rock of Ages Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hill Crest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mars Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away