Riverside Baptist Church
Riverside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 504 South Gossett Street in Anderson, SC 29624. It is one of 217 churches in Anderson, and one of 68 Baptist congregations in the city.
504 South Gossett Street, Anderson, SC, 29624Riverside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,009 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 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 Riverside 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. About 2 in 3 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: 63.4% (45.0–81.8%)
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Food Insecurity: 43.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.1%
- Poverty Rate: 35.1% (23.1–47.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.8%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0% (9.7–28.3%)
- Unemployment: 8.4% (1.8–15.8%)
- Depression: 25.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Anderson city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Riverside Baptist Church
- New Life Philadelphia Center — 0.3 mi away
- Toxaway United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Divine Worship Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Anderson - First SDA Church — 0.5 mi away
- River Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- United House of Prayer — 0.6 mi away
- Mt Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hope Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Royal Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St Mary of The Angels Parish — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- River Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hope Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Royal Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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