Damascus Baptist Church
Damascus Baptist Church is a church at 547 Tyler St in Gadsden, AL 35901-2031. It is one of 185 churches in Gadsden.
547 Tyler St, Gadsden, AL, 35901-2031Phone: +12565479995 · Website: https://www.damascusmbc.com/
Damascus Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Damascus Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 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: 70.1%
- Obesity: 54.9%
- Food Insecurity: 44.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 37.9% (25.2–50.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.4% (12.1–30.8%)
- Unemployment: 13.8% (4.2–23.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Damascus Baptist Church
- Mission Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt. Carmel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- James Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Star AOH Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic House of Prayer Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Celebrate Recovery at Freedom Church Gadsden — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gadsden City Church — 0.5 mi away