Lighthouse Baptist Church
Lighthouse Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 565 W. Thornton St., OH, 44307 in Akron, OH 44307. It is one of 416 churches in Akron, and one of 53 Baptist congregations in the city.
565 W. Thornton St., OH, 44307, Akron, OH, 44307Website: http://www.lighthousebapkjv.com/
Lighthouse Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Lighthouse Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 68.8% (50.6–87.0%)
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Poverty Rate: 32.8% (18.6–47.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (2.9–17.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Depression: 25.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Lighthouse Baptist Church
- Garden of Prayer Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Evening Light Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Is The Answer Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Peace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- iAAMOG Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Jubilee Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- West Side Church of God — 0.5 mi away