St. James Baptist Church
St. James Baptist Church is a church at 7309 Oporto Ave in Birmingham, AL 35206-5322. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.
7309 Oporto Ave, Birmingham, AL, 35206-5322Phone: +12058368513 · Website: http://www.stjameseastlake.com
St. James 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 St. James Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of 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: 57.2% (37.9–76.5%)
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 45.5%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Poverty Rate: 36.3% (24.0–48.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.3% (15.3–27.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (4.6–18.3%)
- Depression: 23.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. James Baptist Church
- Faith Mission Holiness Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Believers of the word international — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Vernon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Deliverance Overcoming Cathedral of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- New Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Agape Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Guiding Light Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.4 mi away
- Little Rock Church — 0.5 mi away
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- Mt Vernon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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- Agape Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Divine Faith Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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