West Side Baptist Church
West Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Natchez, MS 39120. It is one of 149 churches in Natchez, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
Natchez, MS, 39120West Side 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 West Side 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: 76.6%
- Obesity: 46.2%
- Poverty Rate: 42.4% (31.3–53.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 41.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 26.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.5%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (2.1–24.2%)
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3% (11.6–19.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (5.7–17.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Natchez city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 274 residents.
Churches near West Side Baptist Church
- Bright Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rose Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jefferson Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater New Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Mary Basilica Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Rose Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater New Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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