First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Orangeburg, SC 29115. It is one of 93 churches in Orangeburg, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
Orangeburg, SC, 29115First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 87.0%
- Obesity: 48.5%
- Food Insecurity: 45.3%
- Poverty Rate: 43.4% (31.3–55.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.7%
- Diabetes: 23.7%
- Unemployment: 15.9% (2.9–28.9%)
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (9.4–23.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Orangeburg city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 357 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Empowerment Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Moultrie Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- William Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Vine Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St James Church of God — 0.3 mi away