Oakley Free Will Baptist Church
Oakley Free Will Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Asheville, NC 28803. It is one of 225 churches in Asheville, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.
Asheville, NC, 28803Oakley Free Will Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Oakley Free Will Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.4% (9.6–31.1%)
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Child Poverty: 26.0% (8.9–43.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (12.7–30.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Asheville city is served by 77 churches — about one congregation for every 902 residents.
Churches near Oakley Free Will Baptist Church
- Ecclesia Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Oakley United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Oakley Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fellowship Asheville Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seacoast Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hope City Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Church of the Resurrection — 0.8 mi away
- Asheville Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Biltmore Church — 0.9 mi away
- Fairmont Baptist Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ecclesia Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Oakley Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fairmont Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Gashes Creek Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Beverly Hills Baptist church — 1.5 mi away
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