Riverside United Methodist Church
Riverside United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Elmira, NY 14904. It is one of 79 churches in Elmira, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Elmira, NY, 14904Riverside United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 943 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Riverside United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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: 38.7% (22.3–55.1%)
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (15.9–35.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (3.3–14.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Elmira city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 646 residents.
Churches near Riverside United Methodist Church
- Emmanuel Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Elmira Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Beginnings United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Elmira United Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 0.4 mi away
- Elmira Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Infinite Spirit — 0.5 mi away
- St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- New Beginnings United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Minnie L Floyd Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- West Side Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Westside United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away