Springfield Baptist Church
Springfield Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 550 Fourth Street in Athens, GA 30601. It is one of 130 churches in Athens, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
550 Fourth Street, Athens, GA, 30601Springfield Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,417 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 Springfield 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Social Isolation: 43.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.7% (24.1–47.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.2%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (2.3–18.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 1,398 residents.
Churches near Springfield Baptist Church
- St. Paul C.M.E. Church — 0.5 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Missionary Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.8 mi away
- Windborne Church - Athens, GA — 0.8 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- North Avenue Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Dorsey Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- New Faith Tabernacle Church — 0.9 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- North Avenue Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Dorsey Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Northside Church — 1 mi away