Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1200 Hodges Ferry Road in Portsmouth, VA 23701. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 41 Baptist congregations in the city.
1200 Hodges Ferry Road, Portsmouth, VA, 23701Website: http://www.discovercentral.org/
Shares a ministry location with Watermark Bible Church.
Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Central Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (4.5–14.1%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Watermark Bible Church — 0 mi away
- Holy Neck Chrisitan Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Communion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Portsmouth United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- United Congregational Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Portsmouth Alliance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Andrews United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pinecrest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away