Westside Baptist Church
Westside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Columbus, OH 43222. It is one of 1,053 churches in Columbus, and one of 132 Baptist congregations in the city.
Columbus, OH, 43222Westside 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 Westside 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 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 47.2% (33.3–61.1%)
- Social Isolation: 43.6%
- Food Insecurity: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Depression: 31.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (7.3–27.6%)
- Unemployment: 11.0% (4.4–17.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 545 churches — about one congregation for every 1,492 residents.
Churches near Westside Baptist Church
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Stewart Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Avondale United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Park United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Progressive Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jericho's — 0.2 mi away
- Franklinton Community of Hope Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bellows Avenue Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- West Broad Street Missionary Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Matthew Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Amazing Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Kingdom Power Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away