First United Methodist Church of DeKalb
First United Methodist Church of DeKalb is a Methodist church in DeKalb, IL 60115. It is one of 11 churches in DeKalb.
DeKalb, IL, 60115First United Methodist Church of DeKalb is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around First United Methodist Church of DeKalb
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Poverty Rate: 27.8% (16.7–38.8%)
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
- Food Insecurity: 18.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.2–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
DeKalb city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 1,276 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of DeKalb
- First Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb — 0.1 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- DeKalb Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Foursquare Church of De Kalb — 0.3 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- First Congregational United — 0.3 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- First Baptist Church of DeKalb — 0.4 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Templehead — 0.5 mi away in Dekalb, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Cortland Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Cortland, IL
- Sycamore United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Sycamore, IL
- Malta United Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in Malta, IL
- Grace United Methodist Church — 8 mi away in Maple Park, IL