Jerusalem Baptist Church
Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 718 Tidewater Drive in Norfolk, VA 23504. It is one of 341 churches in Norfolk, and one of 43 Baptist congregations in the city.
718 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk, VA, 23504Jerusalem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Jerusalem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of the people here live 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 80.3%
- Poverty Rate: 57.8%
- Obesity: 54.6%
- Food Insecurity: 52.0%
- Social Isolation: 45.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.2%
- Diabetes: 25.5%
- Unemployment: 17.9% (7.0–29.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2% (14.1–23.4%)
- Depression: 23.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Jerusalem Baptist Church
- Greater Metropolitan Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Renewal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gethsemane Community Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Smyrna Church of Christ Holy — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. John's AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away