Riverside Baptist Church

Riverside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Burlington, IA 52601. It is one of 70 churches in Burlington, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.

Burlington, IA, 52601

Riverside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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 Riverside 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. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 38.5% (21.8–55.2%)
  • Social Isolation: 33.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.8% (20.5–37.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.0%
  • Diabetes: 15.4%
  • Obesity: 39.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Burlington city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 484 residents.

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