First Baptist Church of Alabama City
First Baptist Church of Alabama City is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35904. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35904First Baptist Church of Alabama City is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,419 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 First Baptist Church of Alabama City
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 62.7% (44.0–81.5%)
- Obesity: 51.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 39.7%
- Poverty Rate: 35.0% (22.3–47.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 27.3% (16.4–38.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 12.8% (1.8–23.9%)
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Depression: 28.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Alabama City
- United Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Alabama City Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Alabama City United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sansom Avenue Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Church — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral Of Praise — 0.3 mi away
- Forrest Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Forrest Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Dwight Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away