Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a church in Portsmouth, OH 45662. It is one of 81 churches in Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, OH, 45662Central 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 — 71,418 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 Central Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 72.1%
- Obesity: 51.0%
- Poverty Rate: 45.8% (33.4–58.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Depression: 33.6%
- Food Insecurity: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 12.0% (2.6–21.5%)
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5% (10.4–17.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 413 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Franklin Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life Point — 0.2 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant Reformed Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grant and Summit Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Reformed Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away