Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Sixteenth 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, 35601Shares a ministry location with Redeeming Love Outreach Ministry.
Sixteenth 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 Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (14.5–35.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (5.0–15.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.8–16.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 749 residents.
Churches near Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
- Redeeming Love Outreach Ministry — 0 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- City Church Decatur — 0.2 mi away
- Beech Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jones Chapel Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- East End Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sixth Avenue Church of God — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beech Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away