Oakland Baptist Church
Oakland Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roanoke, VA 24012. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Roanoke, VA, 24012Oakland 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 — 71,419 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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Latest from Oakland Baptist Church Roanoke's YouTube channel: The Weight of Sin | September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Oakland 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 nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.5% (14.9–30.1%)
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Child Poverty: 29.6% (19.3–40.8%)
- Depression: 24.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (7.2–20.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Oakland Baptist Church
- Northminister Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fountain of Life — 0.1 mi away
- Huntington Court United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Generation Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Williamson Road Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
- Valley View Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethany Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wildhurst Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana de Roanoke — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Life Pointe Church — 0.9 mi away
- Preston Oaks Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Brentwood Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Airlee Court Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away