West End General Baptist Church
West End General Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1628 Portland Avenue in Louisville, KY 40203. It is one of 843 churches in Louisville, and one of 156 Baptist congregations in the city.
1628 Portland Avenue, Louisville, KY, 40203West End General Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around West End General 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 70.9% (52.5–89.3%)
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Poverty Rate: 42.6% (30.2–54.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Depression: 28.3%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (3.0–16.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.
Churches near West End General Baptist Church
- Church of the Promise — 0.1 mi away
- Seven Angels Church of Truth — 0.2 mi away
- New Breed Church Louisville — 0.2 mi away
- Portland Methodist Center — 0.2 mi away
- Baird Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Ambassador Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Union General Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away