Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wichita, KS 67213. It is one of 601 churches in Wichita, and one of 92 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wichita, KS, 67213Website: https://metrobaptist.com/
Metropolitan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,417 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 35.7% (23.0–48.3%)
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Food Insecurity: 25.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (7.3–25.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
- Child Poverty: 25.3% (7.4–43.2%)
- Depression: 25.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Wichita city is served by 333 churches — about one congregation for every 1,152 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan Baptist Church
- St. Paul's Lutheran Church Wichita, KS — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- RiverWalk Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- District Church — 0.5 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gospel Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- City Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Mary Orthodox Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Rivercrest Community Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- City Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1 mi away