Franklin Avenue United Methodist Church
Franklin Avenue United Methodist Church is a church in Portsmouth, OH 45662. It is one of 81 churches in Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, OH, 45662Franklin Avenue United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,596 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 25,985 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 Franklin Avenue United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 74.1%
- Obesity: 51.0%
- Poverty Rate: 43.7% (30.6–56.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Depression: 33.8%
- Food Insecurity: 32.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (1.6–21.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6% (10.3–17.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 413 residents.
Churches near Franklin Avenue United Methodist Church
- Calvary Chapel — 0 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Reformed Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grant and Summit Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Life Point — 0.4 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cornerstone United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Manly United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Findlay Street United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away