First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bakersfield, CA 93301. It is one of 432 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bakersfield, CA, 93301First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,843 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,417 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 55.1% (38.6–70.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 46.5% (33.6–59.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 45.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 14.2% (5.2–23.1%)
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- The River — 0.2 mi away
- Wholeness Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Confucius Church — 0.4 mi away
- Resurrection Church — 0.4 mi away
- California Avenue Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Casa De Dios — 0.4 mi away
- Mill Creek Christian Chuch — 0.4 mi away
- The Garden — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Martin's Chapel of Bakersfield — 0.6 mi away
- Tri-Stone Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- West Chester Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
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