Second Baptist Church

Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Richmond, VA 23220. It is one of 585 churches in Richmond, and one of 85 Baptist congregations in the city.

Richmond, VA, 23220

Second 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 Second 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 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 93.4%
  • Social Isolation: 41.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 30.7%
  • Depression: 27.2%
  • Unemployment: 9.4% (4.9–13.8%)
  • Food Insecurity: 18.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.1–16.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Richmond city is served by 181 churches — about one congregation for every 1,255 residents.

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