Franklin Avenue Baptist Church
Franklin Avenue Baptist Church is a church in Metairie, LA. It is one of 70 churches in Metairie.
We pray that you and your family continue to grow together in Christ with our church family in the coming months.
Welcome to Franklin RoadWe believe that church should be less about weekly obligation and more about life-changing connection.
Serving since 1963
Metairie, LAWebsite: https://franklinroadbaptist.org/
Franklin Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Franklin Avenue 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 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,600 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.
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Food Insecurity: 25.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (11.3–32.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.8–19.6%)
- Unemployment: 6.6% (0.3–13.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Franklin Avenue Baptist Church
- Church Of The King — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal Apostoles y Profetas — 0.3 mi away
- The Lifegate — 0.5 mi away
- Emanuel Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Orleans Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Covenant Church New Orleans — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary New Orleans — 0.7 mi away
- Vintage Church — 0.7 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saints Community Church — 0.7 mi away