University Baptist Church

University Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70808. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.

Baton Rouge, LA, 70808

Shares a ministry location with Church of the Nations - Baton Rouge.

University 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 University Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 34.2%
  • Depression: 27.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.5% (13.5–31.4%)
  • Unemployment: 6.1% (1.4–10.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.

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