First United Church of Christ
First United Church of Christ is a church in Elmira, NY 14901. It is one of 79 churches in Elmira.
Elmira, NY, 14901First United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 107 congregations of the Congregational family gather across New York — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around First United Church of Christ
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. Nearly half of 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 2,200 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: 48.9% (31.5–66.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 44.0% (30.4–57.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Depression: 23.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Elmira city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 646 residents.
Churches near First United Church of Christ
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Church — 0.1 mi away
- Open Door Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- City of Light — 0.2 mi away
- Lake Street Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Minnie L Floyd Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Saint John the Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ogden Memorial Chapel — 0.5 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- First Congregational Church — 14.5 mi away in Corning, NY