Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 211 Schuylkill Avenue in Reading, PA 19601. It is one of 137 churches in Reading, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
211 Schuylkill Avenue, Reading, PA, 19601Union Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Union 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 more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 73.0%
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 36.2% (22.6–49.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (6.2–18.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Holy Trinity Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Concilio Iglesia Pentecostal El Fin Se Acerca Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- God's Worship & Praise Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Hope Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Mark's United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away in West Reading, PA
- Holy Rosary Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hope of the Nations Christian Center — 0.5 mi away