High Street Baptist Church
High Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35904. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35904High Street 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 — 71,418 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 High Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 51.0% (33.9–68.3%)
- Obesity: 50.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Food Insecurity: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 34.4% (22.3–46.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.2% (13.8–28.6%)
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (0.9–14.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near High Street Baptist Church
- Malone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Charles Street Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Lookout Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ward Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Smiths Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Kyle Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Celebrate Recovery at Freedom Church Gadsden — 0.7 mi away
- Noccalula Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Church On the Rock — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Malone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lookout Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Smiths Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kyle Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away