Columbus Avenue Baptist Church theCenter
Columbus Avenue Baptist Church theCenter is a Baptist church at 1115 Columbus Avenue in Waco, TX 76701. It is one of 284 churches in Waco, and one of 44 Baptist congregations in the city.
1115 Columbus Avenue, Waco, TX, 76701Columbus Avenue Baptist Church theCenter 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 Columbus Avenue Baptist Church theCenter
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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live 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.
- Child Poverty: 64.3% (44.5–84.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 46.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.7% (14.7–28.8%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.1–14.9%)
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waco city is served by 124 churches — about one congregation for every 1,084 residents.
Churches near Columbus Avenue Baptist Church theCenter
- The Olive Branch Christian Fellowship — 0 mi away
- Christ Church Waco — 0.1 mi away
- Mighty Wind Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Columbus Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church Waco — 0.2 mi away
- Austin Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Columbus Avenue Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Harris Creek Downtown — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Columbus Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church N.B.C. — 0.4 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.6 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church Waco — 0.7 mi away