West Chester Baptist Church
West Chester Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bakersfield, CA 93301. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bakersfield, CA, 93301West Chester 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 West Chester 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. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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.
- Child Poverty: 35.3% (19.3–51.3%)
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (11.2–34.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.2%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 West Chester Baptist Church
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Unity Center of Bakersfield — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wholeness Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- New Wine — 0.5 mi away
- Ascension Anglican Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Martin's Chapel of Bakersfield — 0.7 mi away
- Tri-Stone Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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