Poplar Creek Baptist Church
Poplar Creek Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Athens, AL 35611. It is one of 146 churches in Athens, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Athens, AL, 35611Poplar Creek Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,872 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 Poplar Creek Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Food Insecurity: 15.8%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.5–14.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Poplar Creek Baptist Church
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Riddle Chapel — 1.2 mi away
- Friendship at Ripley — 1.2 mi away
- Friendship Church — 1.4 mi away
- Poplar Creek Church — 1.4 mi away
- Coxey Church — 1.4 mi away
- Beacon Church — 2.1 mi away
- Seven Mile Post Road Church — 2.4 mi away
- Clements Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Mount Perrin Church — 2.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Clements Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Blackburn Road Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
- Round Island Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
- The Church at River Mills — 5.8 mi away