South Highland Baptist Church
South Highland Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35901. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35901South Highland 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 South Highland 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 nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 46.3%
- Food Insecurity: 25.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (18.5–38.2%)
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (1.4–14.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (6.8–19.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near South Highland Baptist Church
- Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christian Science Society Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Tabernacle — 0.8 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Gadsden First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Number One Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- East Walnut Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away