Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3000 Melody Lane in Newport, AR 72112. It is one of 34 churches in Newport, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
3000 Melody Lane, Newport, AR, 72112Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Central Baptist Church
In the few miles around 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 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 51.7% (36.8–66.6%)
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Poverty Rate: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (5.4–20.1%)
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (7.1–15.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 419 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- First Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Church — 0.9 mi away in Diaz, AR
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Cherokee Street Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
- Village Creek Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Diaz, AR
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Diaz Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Diaz, AR
- Newport Campus of Central Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Cecilia Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away