First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Leesburg, FL 34748. It is one of 92 churches in Leesburg, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Leesburg, FL, 34748Website: https://firstleesburg.org/
First 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
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (24.8–44.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Unemployment: 23.9% (14.7–33.1%)
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (11.5–25.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Leesburg city is served by 50 churches — about one congregation for every 204 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church of Leesburg — 0.2 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Alliance Missionary Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morrison United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Sanctuary of Praise and Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Lakes — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Chapel of Leesburg — 0.4 mi away
- Berea Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away