First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Carteret, NJ 07008. It is one of 24 churches in Carteret, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Carteret, NJ, 07008Website: http://bible-baptist.com/
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 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 27.8%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Child Poverty: 23.4% (10.0–37.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.2% (12.1–30.2%)
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Carteret borough is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 1,677 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Revival Center Church — 0.1 mi away
- People's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Shalomir — 0.2 mi away
- The Tabernacle Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Carteret Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Eternal God Christian Church - EGCC. — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away