Avenue Baptist Church
Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1009 Ridge Avenue, West Monroe, LA, 71291 in Monroe, LA 71201. It is one of 195 churches in Monroe, and one of 44 Baptist congregations in the city.
1009 Ridge Avenue, West Monroe, LA, 71291, Monroe, LA, 71201Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Avenue 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. 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: 80.7%
- Obesity: 56.9%
- Poverty Rate: 53.1%
- Food Insecurity: 52.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 24.4%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (5.0–26.9%)
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Monroe city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 472 residents.
Churches near Avenue Baptist Church
- First Church of God In Christ — 0 mi away
- Saint Matthews Church of Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Traveler Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Matthew Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Flowery Mount Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Little Flower of Jesus Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Deuteronomy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Triumph Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Refuge Healing Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away