First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jackson, AL 36545. It is one of 22 churches in Jackson, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jackson, AL, 36545First 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
It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 40.4% (23.1–57.7%)
- Unemployment: 20.3% (11.5–29.1%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Food Insecurity: 24.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (14.9–31.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Visitation Catholic Mission — 0.2 mi away
- Word Of Truth Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Magnolia Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vision Life Family Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Jackson Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Forest Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St Union Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Star Zion AME Zion Church — 0.9 mi away