Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wheeling, WV 26003. It is one of 96 churches in Wheeling, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 2019
Wheeling, WV, 26003Metropolitan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Metropolitan 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 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Depression: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.4% (18.5–42.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Child Poverty: 30.0% (17.6–43.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Wheeling city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 339 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan Baptist Church
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity & First English Lutheran Churches — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prayer Hill Church Of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- South Side Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Wheeling United Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Pauls Evangelical Church — 0.3 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away