New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a church in Baconton, GA 31716. It is one of 10 churches in Baconton.
Baconton, GA, 31716New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,872 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.
Find New Salem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around New Salem Baptist Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (11.2–21.9%)
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Food Insecurity: 19.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- Mount Enon Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Baconton United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Baconton Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Zion Hill Church — 3.8 mi away
- Rocky Hill Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Albany, GA
- Lighthouse Ministries Inc — 4.8 mi away in Albany, GA
- Bethel Church — 5 mi away in Albany, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Baconton Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Rocky Hill Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Albany, GA
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Albany, GA