Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Decatur, AL 35601. It is one of 169 churches in Decatur, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
Decatur, AL, 35601Fifth Avenue 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 Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Food Insecurity: 29.3%
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (10.2–27.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (8.2–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 749 residents.
Churches near Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
- Harvest Time O. M. Church — 0.1 mi away
- Purpose Driven Worship Centre — 0.2 mi away
- Life Church HSV — 0.2 mi away
- Sixth Avenue Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- Ninth Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Vintage Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Beech Street Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away