Union Baptist Church

Union Baptist Church is a church at 3800 Polkville Road in Shelby, NC 28150. It is one of 135 churches in Shelby.

3800 Polkville Road, Shelby, NC, 28150

Phone: +17044843865

Union Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Union Baptist Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 35.2% (17.8–53.1%)
  • Social Isolation: 32.5%
  • Obesity: 38.4%
  • Depression: 26.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.5% (11.6–29.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 16.9%
  • Diabetes: 13.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (7.4–20.0%)
  • Unemployment: 7.3% (1.7–12.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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