First Wesleyan Church

First Wesleyan Church is a church at 510 E Alabama Ave in Bessemer City, NC 28016-2862. It is one of 34 churches in Bessemer City.

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510 E Alabama Ave, Bessemer City, NC, 28016-2862

Phone: +17046295286 · Website: http://www.wesleyan.org/

First Wesleyan Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story.

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The community around First Wesleyan 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

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  • Social Isolation: 35.0%
  • Depression: 27.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.4%
  • Obesity: 39.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.6% (10.9–26.3%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
  • Diabetes: 14.5%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (8.1–18.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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