First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church in Starkville, MS 39759. It is one of 76 churches in Starkville.
Starkville, MS, 39759Shares a ministry location with Connection.
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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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.
- Poverty Rate: 36.2% (23.7–48.8%)
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Food Insecurity: 20.2%
- Obesity: 36.2%
- Child Poverty: 23.4% (6.4–40.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.1–14.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Starkville city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 666 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Connection — 0 mi away
- Griffin United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Peters Rock Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Starkville Warehouse — 0.3 mi away
- The Assembly Starkville — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Resurrection — 0.4 mi away