Chicago Avenue Baptist Church
Chicago Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 630 East 16th Street in Richmond, VA 23224. It is one of 584 churches in Richmond, and one of 122 Baptist congregations in the city.
630 East 16th Street, Richmond, VA, 23224Shares a ministry location with Reconciliation Church of God.
Chicago Avenue 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 — 71,420 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 Chicago Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 30.0%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.4% (10.4–26.5%)
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (3.1–15.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 17.0% (11.1–22.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Richmond city is served by 181 churches — about one congregation for every 1,255 residents.
Churches near Chicago Avenue Baptist Church
- Reconciliation Church of God — 0 mi away
- Christian Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral Deliverance Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Narroway True Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Broomfield Christian Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jerusalem Holy Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of South Richmond — 0.4 mi away
- Redeemed Assembly of Jesus Christ Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Community Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of South Richmond — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Baptist Church of South Richmond — 0.6 mi away
- Bainbridge Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away