First United Methodist Church of Akron
First United Methodist Church of Akron is a United Methodist church at 263 East Mill Street in Akron, OH 44308. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
263 East Mill Street, Akron, OH, 44308Phone: +1-330-376-8143 · Website: https://www.fumcakronoh.org/
First United Methodist Church of Akron is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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 First United Methodist Church of Akron
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 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 43.3%
- Poverty Rate: 40.7%
- Food Insecurity: 34.0%
- Depression: 33.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Child Poverty: 34.8% (14.8–54.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (4.1–14.3%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of Akron
- East Market Street United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Akron Chinese Christian Church - 爱城华人基督教会 - ACCC — 0.3 mi away
- The Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Campus Focus — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Remedy Church — 0.4 mi away
- Burning Bush Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Family of Faith United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- North Hill United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Phillips Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away
- Grace Wesleyan Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away