First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church in Bridgeport, IL 62417. It is one of 9 churches in Bridgeport.
Bridgeport, IL, 62417First 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
In the few miles around this church, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Unemployment: 12.2% (6.1–18.4%)
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Food Insecurity: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (11.6–28.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bridgeport city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 493 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bridgeport Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bridgeport Wesleyan Church — 0.4 mi away
- Fountain Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Hope Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Church — 2 mi away