Fairfield Baptist Church
Fairfield Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1500 Mechanicsville Turnpike in Richmond, VA 23223. It is one of 585 churches in Richmond, and one of 85 Baptist congregations in the city.
1500 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA, 23223Fairfield Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 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 Fairfield Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Child Poverty: 60.6% (42.2–78.9%)
- Obesity: 52.9%
- Food Insecurity: 52.4%
- Social Isolation: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 45.4% (32.5–58.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 22.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (4.0–18.1%)
- Depression: 23.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Fairfield Baptist Church
- Eastminster Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Blessed Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.2 mi away
- S I Edwards Memorial Sabbath Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- 21st Street Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Tabor Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Peters Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tenth Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Blessed Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Tabor Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tenth Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Community Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away