North Highlands Baptist Church
North Highlands Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70805. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 163 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70805North Highlands Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,420 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 North Highlands Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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: 52.3% (32.7–71.9%)
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Food Insecurity: 42.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (17.3–41.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.2% (12.3–26.1%)
- Unemployment: 8.2% (0.2–20.9%)
- Depression: 24.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near North Highlands Baptist Church
- North Baton Rouge United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hope Community United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Life Center — 0.2 mi away
- Heavenly Hope-North — 0.3 mi away
- Baton Rouge Greater First Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Restoration Church — 0.3 mi away
- Now Faith Cogic — 0.3 mi away
- Times Of Refreshing Evangelistic Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Redeeming Love Ministries — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Rose Hill Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mt Carmel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Winbourne Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Douglas Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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