Douglas Avenue Baptist Church
Douglas Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70805. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70805Douglas 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 Douglas 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 90.9%
- Food Insecurity: 57.2%
- Obesity: 51.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.8%
- Poverty Rate: 40.7% (22.3–59.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 36.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.9%
- Diabetes: 25.7%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (0.1–20.5%)
- Depression: 26.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near Douglas Avenue Baptist Church
- Saint Gerard Majella Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Baton Rouge Greater First Apostolic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Resurrection Life Assembly of God — 0.7 mi away
- Redeeming Love Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Harvest Life Center — 0.7 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Straight Life Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- North Highlands Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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