Scott's Methodist Church
Scott's Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 2536 Baird Boulevard in Camden, NJ 08105. It is one of 172 churches in Camden, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
2536 Baird Boulevard, Camden, NJ, 08105Scott's Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 515 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New Jersey — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Scott's Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,600 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: 45.3% (27.3–63.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 43.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.5% (15.7–31.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (19.3–39.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (4.1–14.8%)
- Obesity: 39.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Camden city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 516 residents.
Churches near Scott's Methodist Church
- Iglesia Pentecostal La Nueva Jerusalem — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- The Place of Exchange Worship Center — 0.3 mi away in Pennsauken, NJ
- New Life Church Ministries, Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- Camden Churches Organized for People — 0.3 mi away
- Camden Churches — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Camino A Emaus — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- 27th Street Revival Center — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Pro-Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hosanna AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Parkside United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Hope AME — 1 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away