First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Norwich, NY 13815. It is one of 19 churches in Norwich, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Norwich, NY, 13815First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,495 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 12.2% (3.5–20.9%)
- Social Isolation: 32.9%
- Obesity: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
- Poverty Rate: 19.2% (11.6–26.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Norwich city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 772 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Broad Street Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Holmesville Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in South New Berlin, NY
- First Baptist Church Mt Upton — 10.1 mi away in Mt Upton, NY