First Church of Roxbury
First Church of Roxbury is a church in Boston, MA 02119. It is one of 366 churches in Boston.
Boston, MA, 02119Find First Church of Roxbury on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Church of Roxbury
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 94.7%
- Social Isolation: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 45.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.4%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (9.5–21.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Boston city is served by 162 churches — about one congregation for every 4,110 residents.
Churches near First Church of Roxbury
- Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry — 0 mi away in Roxbury, MA
- First Church In Roxbury — 0 mi away
- Holy Temple Church — 0 mi away
- St. John & St. James Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.1 mi away in Roxbury, MA
- Timothy Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ethiopian Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Church Of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fellowship Mission Church — 0.3 mi away