Highland Baptist Church
Highland Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3710 Deep Creek Boulevard in Portsmouth, VA 23702. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 51 Baptist congregations in the city.
3710 Deep Creek Boulevard, Portsmouth, VA, 23702Highland Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 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 Highland Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (11.9–33.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.1–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Highland Baptist Church
- Portsmouth Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Highland Park Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mark Missionary Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Mt Zion Cogic — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Nebo Church — 0.5 mi away
- Biltmore Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Noble Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mark Missionary Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Biltmore Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Noble Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Fairview Heights Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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