Keel Avenue Baptist Church
Keel Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38107. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38107Keel Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,872 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Keel Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 47.2%
- Child Poverty: 42.6% (32.5–53.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 33.4% (21.7–45.2%)
- Diabetes: 23.7%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (4.5–21.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (8.9–25.9%)
- Depression: 25.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Keel Avenue Baptist Church
- Robert Temple Ministry Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- New Allen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Nazareth Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Smothers Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bellevue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Amazing Grace Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Payne Chapel Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Home Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Allen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Nazareth Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bellevue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Home Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 0.3 mi away