Hickory St Baptist Church

Hickory St Baptist Church is a church at 519 Hickory Street in Scranton, PA 18505. It is one of 88 churches in Scranton.

519 Hickory Street, Scranton, PA, 18505

Phone: (570) 507-3406

Hickory St Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Hickory St Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.8% (16.5–37.1%)
  • Unemployment: 11.2% (5.5–17.3%)
  • Obesity: 37.5%
  • Child Poverty: 26.0% (6.2–45.8%)
  • Depression: 24.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (7.5–21.6%)
  • Diabetes: 13.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Scranton city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 2,306 residents.

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