First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Valdosta, GA 31601. It is one of 178 churches in Valdosta, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Valdosta, GA, 31601First 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 63.6% (45.2–82.0%)
- Obesity: 53.0%
- Food Insecurity: 50.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Poverty Rate: 41.5% (28.8–54.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 25.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.6% (13.8–29.4%)
- Unemployment: 14.5% (4.0–25.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Valdosta city is served by 99 churches — about one congregation for every 555 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Holiness House of Praise Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Solomon's porch — 0.1 mi away
- First Methodist Church of Valdosta — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Conquerors Deliverance Center — 0.2 mi away
- Mosaic United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ the King Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Peter Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away