Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38126. It is one of 1,526 churches in Memphis, and one of 379 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38126Metropolitan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Metropolitan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 85.6%
- Poverty Rate: 61.0% (44.7–77.2%)
- Obesity: 54.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.9%
- Diabetes: 29.3%
- Unemployment: 25.2% (12.1–38.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.7%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.2–16.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Metropolitan Baptist Church
- Second Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Praise of Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Harvest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Pure in Heart Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Market Place Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant Restoring Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Greater New Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away