First Church Amherst
First Church Amherst is a church at 165 Main St in Amherst, MA 01002-2333. It is one of 9 churches in Amherst.
165 Main St, Amherst, MA, 01002-2333Phone: +14132533456 · Website: https://www.firstchurchamherst.org/
Shares a ministry location with First Congregational Church.
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The community around First Church Amherst
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Social Isolation: 43.4%
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (24.4–42.0%)
- Depression: 29.5%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.9–14.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Food Insecurity: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Church Amherst
- First Congregational Church — 0 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst — 0.2 mi away
- St Brigid's Church — 0.3 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- Hope Community Church — 0.3 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- Johnson Chapel — 0.3 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- Goodwin African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- MERCYhouse — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Amherst — 0.6 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- Mercy House — 0.6 mi away