White Avenue Baptist Church
White Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 810 White Av in Bastrop, LA 71220. It is one of 98 churches in Bastrop, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
810 White Av, Bastrop, LA, 71220Phone: (504) 466-5381
Shares a ministry location with Second Baptist Church.
White Avenue 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 White Avenue 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: 53.9% (36.7–71.1%)
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Food Insecurity: 48.1%
- Poverty Rate: 44.7% (33.5–55.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.0%
- Unemployment: 13.7% (8.0–19.5%)
- Depression: 27.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bastrop city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 340 residents.
Churches near White Avenue Baptist Church
- Second Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Timothy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Smith Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Timothy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Oak Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away