First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Portsmouth, OH 45662. It is one of 71 churches in Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, OH, 45662Shares a ministry location with Covenant Reformed Baptist Church.
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 76.8%
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Poverty Rate: 43.6% (30.4–56.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Depression: 33.7%
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (1.7–20.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5% (10.3–17.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 413 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Covenant Reformed Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Grant and Summit Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Franklin Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Tower of Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life Point — 0.5 mi away