First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 1209 17th St in Altoona, PA 16601-3126. It is one of 85 churches in Altoona.
1209 17th St, Altoona, PA, 16601-3126Phone: +18149438162 · Website: https://fbcaltoona.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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (13.8–33.8%)
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (2.2–17.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Eighteenth Street Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament — 0.3 mi away
- Saints Peter & Paul Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Mina Coptic Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Center City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Day One of Greater Altoona — 0.4 mi away