Union Avenue Baptist Church
Union Avenue Baptist Church is a church in Paterson, NJ 07502. It is one of 170 churches in Paterson.
Paterson, NJ, 07502Union Avenue 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 — 71,418 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 Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third 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 2,800 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: 44.5%
- Child Poverty: 44.3% (24.8–63.8%)
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (10.8–40.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.8% (8.1–25.4%)
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (3.1–16.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Paterson city is served by 85 churches — about one congregation for every 1,857 residents.
Churches near Union Avenue Baptist Church
- St. Marys Church — 0 mi away in paterson, NJ
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- First Spiritualist Church of Totowa — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Evangelistic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Church — 0.3 mi away in Prospect Park, NJ
- Memorial Church — 0.3 mi away
- Universal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Nuevo Nacimiento — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Jehova En El Monte Sinai — 0.3 mi away
- Paterson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Neighborhood Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Chapel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Prospect Park Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Prospect Park, NJ
- Christ Temple Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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