New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hammond, IN 46320. It is one of 109 churches in Hammond, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hammond, IN, 46320New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Food Insecurity: 34.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Child Poverty: 30.6% (15.7–45.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (16.6–37.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (11.5–26.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.2–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Hammond city is served by 65 churches — about one congregation for every 1,190 residents.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- New Zion Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Temple Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Maywood Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Nicholas American Russian Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Life Church Outreach Ministry — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Temple Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Maywood Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Living Water Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away