University Baptist Church
University Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Galveston, TX 77550. It is one of 125 churches in Galveston, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Galveston, TX, 77550Shares a ministry location with Coastal Community Church.
University Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 University 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 a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (15.8–32.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.3–16.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Galveston city is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 602 residents.
Churches near University Baptist Church
- Coastal Community Church — 0 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Galveston County — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Union Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Luke Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Paul Church — 0.8 mi away
- Templo Sinai Church — 0.8 mi away
- Seawall Church — 0.9 mi away
- Broadway Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Church — 1.2 mi away
- Coastal Community Church — 1.4 mi away
- Mount Moriah Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Live Oak Church — 2 mi away