Southside Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Petersburg, VA 23803. It is one of 124 churches in Petersburg, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Petersburg, VA, 23803Southside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Southside 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 47.8%
- Food Insecurity: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 26.4% (17.5–35.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (3.2–20.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Petersburg city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 652 residents.
Churches near Southside Baptist Church
- Zion Apostolic Christian Memorial Temple — 0.3 mi away
- New First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Faith AME Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- Shining Light Pentecostal — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Paul's Baptist Church Elm Campus — 1.2 mi away
- Elm Street Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away