Brown Street Baptist Church
Brown Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44311. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44311Shares a ministry location with New Millennium House of Prayer.
Brown Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,418 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 Brown Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 58.5% (40.8–76.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 46.0%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Food Insecurity: 33.1%
- Depression: 32.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (2.5–17.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.3–20.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Brown Street Baptist Church
- New Millennium House of Prayer — 0 mi away
- Korean Church of Akron — 0.2 mi away
- Free Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Willard United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Concordia Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Thompson Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Is The Answer Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- The Church at Akron — 0.4 mi away
- New Kingdom Apostolic Faith — 0.4 mi away
- Akron Bible Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- True Deliverance Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Bethel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- McNaughton Street Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Faith Missionary Baptist — 1.1 mi away