New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fort Myers, FL 33916. It is one of 303 churches in Fort Myers, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fort Myers, FL, 33916New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,713 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 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 Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 71.7% (51.9–91.5%)
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (27.2–52.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.2%
- Diabetes: 23.4%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (4.8–21.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (8.9–21.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Fort Myers city is served by 73 churches — about one congregation for every 1,202 residents.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- Fire Baptized Holiness Church — 0 mi away
- Cornerstone Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God the Pentecostal Way — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Sinai Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- House of God Saints in Christ Freewill Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Hope Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- The Pentecostal Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Epiphany Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Sinai Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St John First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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