Ocean Avenue Baptist Church
Ocean Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jersey City, NJ 07305. It is one of 206 churches in Jersey City, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jersey City, NJ, 07305Website: http://www.oabchurch.org/
Shares a ministry location with New Redeemer Reformed Episcopal Church.
Ocean Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Ocean 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 a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,900 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: 27.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (4.0–14.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Jersey City city is served by 102 churches — about one congregation for every 2,822 residents.
Churches near Ocean Avenue Baptist Church
- New Redeemer Reformed Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- Christ the King Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Temple Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Redeemed Christian Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- RCCG Mercy Seat — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary CME — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Michael's Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Porter Memorial Distr COGIC — 0.2 mi away