Salem Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in LA 71238.
LA, 71238Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Salem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Salem Baptist Church
It takes 5.9 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (9.7–22.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (1.4–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Grace Apostolic — 2.4 mi away in Eros, LA
- First Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Chatham, LA
- Concord Church — 4.3 mi away
- Saint Clair Church — 4.5 mi away
- Frantom Chapel Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away
- Community Of Christ — 4.7 mi away in Eros, LA
- Robinson Chapel — 5.1 mi away
- Plum Hill Church — 5.3 mi away
- Mount Mariah Church — 5.4 mi away
- Olive Grove Church — 5.8 mi away in Choudrant, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Caney Lake Baptist Chuch — 6.3 mi away
- Cartwright Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Choudrant, LA
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away
- Vernon Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away in Ruston, LA
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away in Jonesboro, LA