Riverside Baptist Church

Riverside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 504 South Gossett Street in Anderson, SC 29624. It is one of 217 churches in Anderson, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.

504 South Gossett Street, Anderson, SC, 29624

Riverside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.

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The community around Riverside Baptist Church

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 adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

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  • Child Poverty: 63.4% (45.0–81.8%)
  • Obesity: 48.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 43.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.1% (23.1–47.0%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 29.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.8%
  • Diabetes: 23.2%
  • Social Isolation: 39.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0% (9.7–28.3%)
  • Unemployment: 8.4% (1.8–15.8%)
  • Depression: 25.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Anderson city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.

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