True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44314. It is one of 416 churches in Akron, and one of 53 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44314True Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around True Light Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 47.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (15.5–41.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (1.9–16.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near True Light Baptist Church
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church On the Boulevard — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Liberty Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kenmore Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Community Friends Church of Urban Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Akron United Wesleyan Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Pentecostals of Akron — 0.7 mi away
- Apostolic Christian Church of South Akron — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Deliverance in Jesus Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Pentecostal Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away