Community Baptist Church

Community Baptist Church is a Baptist church in North Plainfield, NJ 07060. It is one of 15 churches in North Plainfield, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

North Plainfield, NJ, 07060

Community 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 — 71,419 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 Community Baptist 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

  • Food Insecurity: 47.1%
  • Child Poverty: 42.9% (24.5–61.2%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 41.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 38.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 36.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 30.2% (17.4–43.0%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
  • Obesity: 40.1%
  • Social Isolation: 39.9%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
  • Diabetes: 15.3%
  • Unemployment: 11.8% (3.3–21.0%)

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

North Plainfield borough is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 2,836 residents.

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