West Side Baptist Church
West Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bastrop, LA 71220. It is one of 98 churches in Bastrop, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bastrop, LA, 71220West Side Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Side 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. Nearly half of 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: 54.0% (36.8–71.2%)
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Food Insecurity: 49.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Poverty Rate: 41.3% (28.4–54.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 14.2% (5.9–22.5%)
- Depression: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bastrop city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 340 residents.
Churches near West Side Baptist Church
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- ALPHA and OMEGA Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Life Blood Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- New Lights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Lights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away