Salem Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jersey City, NJ 07304. It is one of 204 churches in Jersey City, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jersey City, NJ, 07304Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 706 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 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 Salem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,900 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.
- Poverty Rate: 32.5% (18.5–46.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.5%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (4.8–19.5%)
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Obesity: 36.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (6.3–41.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Jersey City city is served by 102 churches — about one congregation for every 2,822 residents.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Miracle Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fresh Anointing House of Refuge — 0.2 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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