Salem Avenue Baptist Church
Salem Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 206 churches in Sumter, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sumter, SC, 29150Shares a ministry location with Westend Community Church.
Salem Avenue 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 Salem Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Food Insecurity: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Poverty Rate: 34.2% (24.8–43.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Diabetes: 25.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 15.7% (7.5–23.9%)
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (5.1–17.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Sumter city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Salem Avenue Baptist Church
- Westend Community Church — 0 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- New Birth Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- House of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Jude Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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