Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hattiesburg, MS 39401. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 46 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hattiesburg, MS, 39401Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Nineteenth 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 50.1% (30.5–69.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 38.2%
- Poverty Rate: 31.3% (18.5–44.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0% (11.5–26.6%)
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (1.4–18.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Hattiesburg city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 689 residents.
Churches near Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church
- House of the Lord Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Truth Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Rock Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Seasons Family Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Southern Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Anointed Word Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hardy Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- House of the Lord Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hardy Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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