West Van Buren Baptist Church
West Van Buren Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Phoenix, AZ 85009. It is one of 989 churches in Phoenix, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Phoenix, AZ, 85009West Van Buren Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 504 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arizona — 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 West Van Buren Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.2% (31.4–59.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 43.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.2% (19.6–32.9%)
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (17.2–37.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Obesity: 39.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Phoenix city is served by 448 churches — about one congregation for every 3,544 residents.
Churches near West Van Buren Baptist Church
- Serenity Chapel - Greenwood Memory Lawn — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Universal — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Mexicana — 0.3 mi away
- True Deliverance Church of Jesus Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Santo Nino Catholic Community — 0.7 mi away
- Phoenix West Spanish Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- St. Matthew Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia Universal — 0.8 mi away
- Faithful Word Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faithful Word Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Emanuel — 1.4 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- New Home Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Thirty-Fifth Avenue Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away