First Saint James Baptist Church
First Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New Orleans, LA 70125. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70125First Saint James 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 — 71,417 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 First Saint James 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. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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.
- Social Isolation: 46.0%
- Food Insecurity: 40.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Depression: 30.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (17.0–42.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.4%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (7.3–19.6%)
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.5–12.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near First Saint James Baptist Church
- First Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Way Missionary Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Saint Andrew Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Philips Memorial Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Peter's Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First New Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Saint Andrew Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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