Rio Vista Baptist Center
Rio Vista Baptist Center is a Baptist church at 1431 East Southern Avenue in Phoenix, AZ 85042. It is one of 987 churches in Phoenix, and one of 85 Baptist congregations in the city.
1431 East Southern Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, 85042Rio Vista Baptist Center is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 508 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arizona — 71,418 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 Rio Vista Baptist Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,300 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.
- Food Insecurity: 31.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.0% (13.2–28.8%)
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (12.2–33.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Phoenix city is served by 448 churches — about one congregation for every 3,544 residents.
Churches near Rio Vista Baptist Center
- Southern Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ at the Vineyard — 0.4 mi away
- Family of Faith Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Living God CWFF — 0.6 mi away
- Jericho Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
- Community Outreach Ministry Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Roeser Road Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- St Stephen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- South Mountain Community Church - Phoenix — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Stephen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Riverside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- New Salem Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- El Faro Spanish Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Willow Grove Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away