Salem Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church is a church at 1601 6th St in Port Arthur, TX 77640-6156. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur.
1601 6th St, Port Arthur, TX, 77640-6156Phone: +14099831286 · Website: http://salem-baptist.com
Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,872 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 Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 51.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.2%
- Diabetes: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.9% (11.9–29.9%)
- Child Poverty: 39.1% (20.3–57.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.1% (12.9–39.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Seventh Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ — 0.1 mi away
- New Spirit Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sabbath Rest Nondenominational Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Light Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shilo Missionary Baptist Church of Port Arthur TX — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Seventh Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Spirit Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Light Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away