Alta Woods Baptist Church
Alta Woods Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jackson, MS 39204. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 104 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39204Shares a ministry location with New Jerusalem Church.
Alta Woods Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,872 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 Alta Woods 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 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: 72.8% (53.0–92.7%)
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Food Insecurity: 44.2%
- Poverty Rate: 43.2% (27.6–58.8%)
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.6% (13.8–29.4%)
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 12.4% (4.8–20.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1% (12.4–20.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Alta Woods Baptist Church
- New Jerusalem Church — 0 mi away
- We Care Church — 0.1 mi away
- Alta Woods Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Dimensions International Church — 0.3 mi away
- Alta Woods United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Foursquare Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crossroads M.B. Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Therese Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tabernacle of Alpha and Omega Church — 0.6 mi away
- True Gospel International Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- McDowell Road Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Smith Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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