West Avenue Baptist Church
West Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Burlington, IA 52601. It is one of 70 churches in Burlington, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
Burlington, IA, 52601West Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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 Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Obesity: 36.4%
- Child Poverty: 23.5% (8.0–39.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (10.5–25.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Burlington city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 484 residents.
Churches near West Avenue Baptist Church
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Burlington Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Missionary Church — 0.5 mi away
- Peace Mennonite Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Hill United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Side Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Foursquare Gospel Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Burlington Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Riverside Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church Full Gospel Fellowship — 1 mi away