Northside Baptist Church

Northside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lafayette, LA 70501. It is one of 151 churches in Lafayette, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.

Lafayette, LA, 70501

Shares a ministry location with Christ Church Recovery.

Northside 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 Northside Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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: 83.0%
  • Obesity: 45.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 44.3%
  • Social Isolation: 41.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 40.4% (27.1–53.6%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 31.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
  • Diabetes: 22.3%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.2% (8.7–25.8%)
  • Unemployment: 11.8% (3.4–21.0%)
  • Depression: 24.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%

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

Lafayette city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 2,480 residents.

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