Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1633 5th Ave in Columbus, GA 31901-1927. It is one of 329 churches in Columbus, and one of 46 Baptist congregations in the city.
1633 5th Ave, Columbus, GA, 31901-1927Phone: (706) 322-1488 · Website: http://www.themetrocolumbus.net/
Metropolitan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,419 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.
Find Metropolitan Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Metropolitan 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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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: 75.2% (56.3–94.2%)
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Food Insecurity: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 33.1% (21.1–45.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.5% (11.5–27.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (2.5–17.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Depression: 23.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Metropolitan Baptist Church
- Foundation Point Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Power Community Church of Love — 0.3 mi away
- GSGMBC-Historic Site — 0.3 mi away
- Rose Hill Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faithful Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- His Gathering House — 0.6 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- Saint James Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- The Life Center — 0.7 mi away
- Church of the Holy Family — 0.7 mi away
- Fountain City Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faithful Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- Saint James Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- Central Baptist Church of Columbus — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Columbus — 0.7 mi away
- New Beginning Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Phenix City, AL