First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Oxford, OH 45056. It is one of 34 churches in Oxford, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Oxford, OH, 45056First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,344 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 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, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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: 96.9%
- Poverty Rate: 62.9% (46.6–79.3%)
- Social Isolation: 45.1%
- Depression: 34.3%
- Food Insecurity: 25.1% (17.1–33.0%)
- Unemployment: 12.5% (3.4–21.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3% (12.4–21.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5% (11.0–19.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9% (9.4–15.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Oxford city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 2,374 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Oxford Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Oxford United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- God's House of Praise and Worship — 0.2 mi away
- First Pentecostal Bible Way Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mary Roman Catholic Parish — 0.3 mi away
- The Calvary Church - Oxford, OH — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Oxford Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Oxford — 2 mi away
- Hopedale Unitarian Universalist Community — 2.4 mi away
- Oxford Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Talawanda Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away