First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 633 S Pearl Ave in Joplin, MO 64801. It is one of 119 churches in Joplin.
633 S Pearl Ave, Joplin, MO, 64801Phone: (417) 624-4585 · Website: http://firstjoplin.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Child Poverty: 41.6% (22.3–60.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.3% (15.4–27.1%)
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (4.9–16.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Cross Joplin — 0.1 mi away
- Joplin Chapter DeMolay — 0.2 mi away
- Traders Church — 0.2 mi away
- SolaceChurch — 0.2 mi away
- Uncommon Life — 0.2 mi away
- CCC Saturday Night Live — 0.2 mi away
- Joplin First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away