Sixtyeight Avenue Baptist Church
Sixtyeight Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70807. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70807Sixtyeight 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 Sixtyeight Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 92.0%
- Food Insecurity: 48.9%
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Poverty Rate: 40.9% (24.1–57.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (3.2–14.4%)
- Depression: 25.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1% (9.4–17.1%)
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 Sixtyeight Avenue Baptist Church
- Church of God in Christ New MCDN — 0.2 mi away
- New Macedonia Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Agape Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Michaels Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- True Love Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Agape Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- True Love Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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