First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1024 Peach Street in Erie, PA 16501. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1826
1024 Peach Street, Erie, PA, 16501Shares a ministry location with The Cross.
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 79.0%
- Poverty Rate: 48.0% (34.7–61.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (1.0–19.5%)
- Depression: 26.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- The Cross — 0 mi away
- Grace Fellowship International Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Peter Cathedral Church — 0.2 mi away
- Luther Memorial Church — 0.2 mi away
- Field of Dreams Harvest Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Paul — 0.3 mi away
- Solomon's Porch Apostolic Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant — 0.4 mi away