Sweethome Baptist Church
Sweethome Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 163 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70802Sweethome 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 Sweethome 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 44.1% (32.1–56.0%)
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 35.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (1.9–15.9%)
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near Sweethome Baptist Church
- Mount Gillion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Canaan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Gillion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Canaan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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