University Baptist Church

University Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Oxford, MS 38655. It is one of 98 churches in Oxford, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.

Oxford, MS, 38655

Shares a ministry location with South Lamar Baptist Church.

University 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 University 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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Poverty Rate: 39.7% (25.3–54.0%)
  • Social Isolation: 37.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (5.4–22.1%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Oxford city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 969 residents.

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