Central United Methodist Church
Central United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Springfield, OH 45502. It is one of 185 churches in Springfield, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
Springfield, OH, 45502Central United Methodist Church 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 Central United Methodist Church
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 47.8%
- Poverty Rate: 30.7% (18.8–42.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (4.9–18.8%)
- Child Poverty: 29.2% (11.4–46.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 67 churches — about one congregation for every 991 residents.
Churches near Central United Methodist Church
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Navigators Church Ministries - Springfield — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God Mpgt National — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Raphael Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Faith Center — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- High Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New North Street African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Clifton Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Covenant United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away