Highview Avenue Baptist Church
Highview Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44301. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44301Shares a ministry location with Hope Baptist Church.
Highview Avenue 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 — 71,417 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 Highview Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 56.7% (39.0–74.8%)
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Food Insecurity: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (9.1–29.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Highview Avenue Baptist Church
- Hope Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Brown Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Ghost Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Evangelical Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Paul Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- St.Paul Missionary — 0.6 mi away
- Firestone Park Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St.Paul Missionary — 0.6 mi away
- Firestone Park Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Mission Missionary Baptist — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Timothy Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away