First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Canton, OH 44702. It is one of 196 churches in Canton, and one of 7 Methodist congregations in the city.
Canton, OH, 44702Shares a ministry location with Crossroads United Methodist Church.
First Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 53.7%
- Poverty Rate: 46.4% (32.6–60.2%)
- Child Poverty: 43.0% (28.7–60.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.6%
- Food Insecurity: 39.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.8%
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (2.7–23.3%)
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Canton city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 977 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- Crossroads United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Salvation Army Canton — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Church — 0.3 mi away
- Simpson United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Martin Luther Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away