First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is a Congregational church at 5 Real Road in Bakersfield, CA 93309. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 2 Congregational congregations in the city.
5 Real Road, Bakersfield, CA, 93309First Congregational Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 119 congregations of the Congregational family gather across California — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around First Congregational Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,300 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.
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (6.2–16.3%)
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Poverty Rate: 20.4% (11.4–29.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church
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- The Vision Plus Church Bakersfield — 0.1 mi away
- Stockdale Southern Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bakersfield Korean Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Testament Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant Community Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kern Christian Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- City Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
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