Fifth Ward Baptist Church

Fifth Ward Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 900 Franklin Street, Clarksville, TN, 37040 in Clarksville, TN 37040. It is one of 227 churches in Clarksville, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.

reaching the inner city by the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry of Jesus Christ

Serving since 1870

900 Franklin Street, Clarksville, TN, 37040, Clarksville, TN, 37040

Website: http://www.5thwardmbc.org/

Fifth Ward Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.

Ministries at Fifth Ward Baptist Church

  • Feeding on Franklin
  • Another Blessing clothing ministry

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The community around Fifth Ward 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

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  • Obesity: 45.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 36.5% (25.1–47.9%)
  • Depression: 32.3%
  • Child Poverty: 31.3% (13.8–48.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (10.1–25.5%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
  • Diabetes: 13.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Clarksville city is served by 55 churches — about one congregation for every 2,741 residents.

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