Western Avenue Baptist Church
Western Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Toledo, OH 43609. It is one of 483 churches in Toledo, and one of 82 Baptist congregations in the city.
Toledo, OH, 43609Western 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 — 71,418 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 Western Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Child Poverty: 43.5% (25.8–60.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 37.0% (24.1–49.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 14.6% (3.9–25.6%)
- Depression: 29.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (7.0–21.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Toledo city is served by 317 churches — about one congregation for every 814 residents.
Churches near Western Avenue Baptist Church
- Living Hope Christian Center — 0 mi away
- Broadway United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Community Church Of God — 0.1 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church Without Walls Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First Spiritualist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First English Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Lucas Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Inner City Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Home Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away