Elm Street Baptist Church

Elm Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Knoxville, TN 37921. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 78 Baptist congregations in the city.

Knoxville, TN, 37921

Elm Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,872 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 Elm Street Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Depression: 33.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 32.9% (22.0–43.8%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
  • Obesity: 41.8%
  • Child Poverty: 31.8% (14.3–49.3%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (9.8–23.0%)
  • Diabetes: 15.7%
  • Unemployment: 8.7% (2.5–14.8%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.

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