Chester Avenue Baptist Church
Chester Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bakersfield, CA 93304. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bakersfield, CA, 93304Website: https://cacc.churchtrac.com/
Chester Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 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 Chester Avenue 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,300 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: 46.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.7% (21.5–45.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Child Poverty: 30.7% (14.1–47.3%)
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (5.0–19.5%)
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.9–13.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near Chester Avenue Baptist Church
- Valley Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Nuestra Senora Del Carmen — 0.3 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- South Gate Redemption Center — 0.5 mi away
- Bakersfield Bible Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Assembly Church — 0.5 mi away
- AJEC Region Pacifico — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Christian Center — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ Christian Ministries — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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