First Christian Church

The community around First Christian Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 40.9% (26.9–54.9%)
• Poverty Rate: 31.7% (22.9–40.5%)
• Obesity: 44.1%
• Social Isolation: 32.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
• Food Insecurity: 25.0%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (7.5–17.3%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Christian Church

• Saint Peter & Paul Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Spanish Baptist Mission — 0.6 mi away
• Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
• Pentecostal Church of God — 0.7 mi away
• Calvary Life Assembly of God — 0.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Washington Street Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• First American Baptist Church Hobart — 1.2 mi away
• Red River Cowboy Church of Hobart — 1.2 mi away