Goodyear Heights Baptist Church
Goodyear Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1767 Goodyear Boulevard in Akron, OH 44305. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
1767 Goodyear Boulevard, Akron, OH, 44305Phone: (330) 784-5497 · Website: https://ghbcakron.org/wordpress/
Goodyear Heights 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 Goodyear Heights Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Depression: 29.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (9.9–25.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Goodyear Heights Baptist Church
- Wingfoot Church — 0.1 mi away
- Goodyear Heights United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Goodyear Heights Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Goodyear Heights Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ebenezer Apostolic Assembly Church — 0.6 mi away
- Phillip's Chapel CME Church — 0.6 mi away
- Phillips Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel United Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Akron Freewill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Akron Freewill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Karen Akron Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- McNaughton Street Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Greater Faith Missionary Baptist — 1.5 mi away