Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan Baptist Church is a church at 1633 5th Ave in Columbus, GA 31901-1927. It is one of 324 churches in Columbus.
1633 5th Ave, Columbus, GA, 31901-1927Phone: +17063221488 · Website: http://www.themetrocolumbus.net/
Metropolitan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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