Fifth Street Baptist Church
Fifth Street Baptist Church is a church at 2530 Dale Dr in Meridian, MS 39301-1765. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian.
2530 Dale Dr, Meridian, MS, 39301-1765Phone: (601) 483-1827 · Website: http://fifthstreetbaptistchurch.com/
Fifth Street 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 Fifth Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. More than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 58.1% (40.1–76.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 58.0%
- Obesity: 54.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.8%
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 31.8%
- Diabetes: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.2%
- Unemployment: 18.0% (9.6–26.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (7.8–18.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Fifth Street Baptist Church
- Greater Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Meridale Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cathedral Assembly of God — 0.7 mi away
- New Prospect Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eastview Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Eighth Avenue Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- Congregation Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- Church of Christ-Grandview — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Mount Herman Baptist Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Meridale Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Prospect Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eastview Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Mount Herman Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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