First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church in Columbus, MS 39701. It is one of 126 churches in Columbus.
Columbus, MS, 39701Shares a ministry location with Columbus First Methodist.
First 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
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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 71.0%
- Poverty Rate: 39.6% (27.5–51.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (6.0–18.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 362 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Columbus First Methodist — 0 mi away
- Main Street Presbyterian — 0.1 mi away
- Hope Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Annunciation Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Catherine Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away