South Jefferson Baptist Church

South Jefferson Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6505 Pendleton Road in Louisville, KY 40272. It is one of 838 churches in Louisville, and one of 189 Baptist congregations in the city.

6505 Pendleton Road, Louisville, KY, 40272

South Jefferson Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,797 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kentucky — 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 South Jefferson 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. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 31.5% (13.2–49.8%)
  • Depression: 29.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
  • Obesity: 39.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.3% (11.3–29.3%)
  • Diabetes: 14.2%
  • Unemployment: 6.6% (0.8–12.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,859 residents.

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