New Salem Primitive Baptist Church
New Salem Primitive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, AL 35218. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 102 Baptist congregations in the city.
Birmingham, AL, 35218Shares a ministry location with Ensley Church of Christ.
New Salem Primitive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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.
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The community around New Salem Primitive 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 49.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Food Insecurity: 41.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 25.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (12.4–39.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (6.5–25.5%)
- Unemployment: 10.7% (4.7–16.7%)
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (6.6–44.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near New Salem Primitive Baptist Church
- Ensley Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Lily Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First African Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away in Ensley, AL
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater New Beginning Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. John Baptist Church-Edgewater — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lily Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ensley — 0.4 mi away
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