Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church

Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church is a church at 1405 13th Ave N in Birmingham, AL 35204-2714. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.

1405 13th Ave N, Birmingham, AL, 35204-2714

Phone: +12052524270 · Website: http://www.macedonia17baptist.org/

Shares a ministry location with Calvary Baptist Church.

Macedonia 17th Street 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 Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 91.2%
  • Obesity: 50.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 47.7%
  • Social Isolation: 43.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 33.7% (22.1–45.3%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 32.6%
  • Diabetes: 26.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.0% (15.3–34.7%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
  • Unemployment: 9.4% (1.3–17.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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