First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United_methodist church in Bessemer City, NC 28016. It is one of 34 churches in Bessemer City.
Bessemer City, NC, 28016First 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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Food Insecurity: 21.7%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (9.7–25.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (7.5–18.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Faith Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St John CHCOG — 0.6 mi away
- First Wesleyan Church — 0.6 mi away
- Monte Calvario — 0.7 mi away