Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Roanoke, VA, 24016Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 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 Central Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Food Insecurity: 21.6%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.0–21.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Elevation Church — 0.4 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Water of Life COGOP — 0.5 mi away
- Roanoke Southeast Church Of God Of Prophecy — 0.5 mi away
- Blue Ridge Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Seventeenth Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- House of Prayer Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bread Of Heaven Roanoke VA — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- East End Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Seventeenth Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hill Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ironside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away