Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, OH 43055. It is one of 90 churches in Newark, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newark, OH, 43055Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 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 Second Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 53.3% (33.4–73.2%)
- Obesity: 46.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Food Insecurity: 27.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Depression: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (15.3–35.3%)
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (2.6–17.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 976 residents.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Spirit of Humble Beginnings — 0.4 mi away
- Redemption Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Redemption Church of Licking County — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Four Square Gospel Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Western Avenue Primitive Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- The Firehouse — 1.2 mi away
- Cedar Hill Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away