Salem Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rochelle, GA 31079. It is one of 13 churches in Rochelle, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rochelle, GA, 31079Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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.
Find Salem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Salem Baptist Church
It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (14.5–34.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (11.2–23.7%)
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Child Poverty: 27.6% (11.6–44.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.1–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Youngs Chapel — 2.5 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Mount Isaac Church — 5.2 mi away
- King Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Fitzgerald, GA
- Arp Missionary Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Abba Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Fitzgerald, GA
- New Hope Primitive Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- King Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Fitzgerald, GA
- Arp Missionary Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Abba Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Fitzgerald, GA