Straight Life Baptist Church
Straight Life 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, 70805Straight Life 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 — 71,418 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 Straight Life 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. 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: 87.5%
- Food Insecurity: 55.8%
- Poverty Rate: 53.4% (39.0–67.8%)
- Obesity: 51.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 35.4%
- Unemployment: 34.6% (21.1–48.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 28.9%
- Diabetes: 26.4%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7% (11.1–18.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (6.5–22.1%)
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 Straight Life Baptist Church
- Weapons Of Truth — 0.2 mi away
- New Freedom Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith City International Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- United Bible Scholars Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cathedral of Faith — 0.4 mi away
- Rose Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jehovah Ministry — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rose Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Douglas Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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