New Canaan Baptist Church
New Canaan Baptist Church is a church at 2160 Highland Rd in Baton Rouge, LA 70802-7244. It is one of 547 churches in Baton Rouge.
2160 Highland Rd, Baton Rouge, LA, 70802-7244Phone: +12252561245 · Website: http://www.newcanaanchurch.org/
New Canaan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Canaan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 41.0%
- Poverty Rate: 38.5% (26.8–50.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (2.1–15.5%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Canaan Baptist Church
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweethome Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Gillion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Gideon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Neely United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away