Ninth Street Baptist Church
Ninth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fort Smith, AR 72901. It is one of 217 churches in Fort Smith, and one of 34 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fort Smith, AR, 72901Ninth Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,140 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 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 Ninth Street 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. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Food Insecurity: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 31.9% (16.9–46.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (6.1–25.6%)
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Child Poverty: 30.1% (13.6–46.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.6% (13.1–26.0%)
- Depression: 25.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Fort Smith city is served by 138 churches — about one congregation for every 625 residents.
Churches near Ninth Street Baptist Church
- Mt. Zion CME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mallalieu United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mission United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustines Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal MI, Fort Smith, AR — 0.2 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Hispana Batista — 0.6 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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