Ash Avenue Baptist Church
Ash Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 900 Ash Avenue in South Boston, VA 24592. It is one of 40 churches in South Boston, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
900 Ash Avenue, South Boston, VA, 24592Website: https://www.facebook.com/ASHAVENUEBAPTISTCHURCH/
Ash Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Ash Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 47.3% (32.8–61.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (20.5–38.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.8–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
South Boston town is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 314 residents.
Churches near Ash Avenue Baptist Church
- Saint Paschals Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Main Street Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Love Fellowship Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- Great Grace Worship Center — 0.8 mi away
- Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away
- The Harbor — 0.9 mi away
- Mizpah Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away