East Walnut Baptist Church
East Walnut Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35903. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35903East Walnut Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,417 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 East Walnut 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 49.3%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (22.4–47.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.9% (14.1–35.6%)
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Child Poverty: 22.2% (4.5–40.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near East Walnut Baptist Church
- The People Place Church — 0.2 mi away
- East Gadsden Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- East Gadsden United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- East Gadsden Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Freewill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Liberty Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
- Gadsden Baptist Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Eastside Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gadsden Vineyard Church — 0.8 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- East Gadsden Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Freewill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gadsden Baptist Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away