Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 13500 Dexter Avenue in Detroit, MI 48238. It is one of 1,590 churches in Detroit, and one of 235 Baptist congregations in the city.
13500 Dexter Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48238Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 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.
- Obesity: 48.1%
- Food Insecurity: 43.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (16.7–48.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.2–16.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
- True Rock Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater New Jerusalem Missionary — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness — 0.3 mi away
- Pure Faith Ministries Empowerment Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Spirit & Truth Christian Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Banks Triumph Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Temple Cogic — 0.4 mi away
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Life Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kaleo Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away