Portage First United Methodist Church
Portage First United Methodist Church is a United_methodist church in Portage, IN 46368. It is one of 38 churches in Portage.
Portage, IN, 46368Website: http://www.portageumc.org/
Portage First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Portage First United Methodist 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. More than a third of the children here are growing up 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 41.3% (26.9–55.7%)
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.9% (8.9–26.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (3.0–11.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Portage city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 2,542 residents.
Churches near Portage First United Methodist Church
- Faith Tabernacle Pentecostal Center of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Portage Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witness Church — 1 mi away
- St Peter Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Crocker Bible Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Chesterton, IN
- City Point Church — 1.1 mi away
- Portage Christadelphians — 1.2 mi away
- Crocker Bible Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Chesterton, IN
- Greater Grace Church — 1.7 mi away in Valparaiso, IN
- Hope Church — 1.7 mi away