Westhaven Baptist Church
Westhaven Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jackson, MS 39209. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 104 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39209Westhaven 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 Westhaven Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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: 98.1%
- Obesity: 50.6%
- Food Insecurity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (24.1–55.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.1%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (1.9–17.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (8.1–20.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Westhaven Baptist Church
- New Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ideal Family Church — 0.4 mi away
- Parkhill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Church of Christ Holiness — 0.5 mi away
- New McRaven Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God Holiness — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Northside Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Holy Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New McRaven Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Northside Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Van Winkle Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Pure Light Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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