Western Avenue Primitive Baptist Church
Western Avenue Primitive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, OH 43055. It is one of 90 churches in Newark, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newark, OH, 43055Western Avenue Primitive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,344 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,874 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 Western Avenue Primitive 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Child Poverty: 37.2% (22.0–54.1%)
- Depression: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (17.4–35.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (6.8–15.3%)
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.8–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 976 residents.
Churches near Western Avenue Primitive Baptist Church
- Sixth Street Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Life & Praise Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Legacy Church In Newark, Ohio — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Four Square Gospel Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- The Firehouse — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Redemption Church of Licking County — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Firehouse — 0.5 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- First Baptist Heath — 2 mi away in Heath, OH