Canaan Baptist Church
Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baltimore, MD 21201. It is one of 1,252 churches in Baltimore, and one of 166 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baltimore, MD, 21201Website: http://www.canaanbap.org
Canaan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Canaan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 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: 100.0%
- Obesity: 45.2%
- Social Isolation: 42.4%
- Food Insecurity: 39.1%
- Poverty Rate: 34.2% (22.5–45.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (4.6–18.8%)
- Depression: 25.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Baltimore city is served by 721 churches — about one congregation for every 810 residents.
Churches near Canaan Baptist Church
- former Orchard Street Church — 0.1 mi away
- Israelite Church of God In Jesus Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Triumph Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sow into Purposed Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Carter Memorial COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Jude Shrine — 0.3 mi away
- Pennsylvania Avenue African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away