First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 158 churches in Sumter, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sumter, SC, 29150First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 48.7%
- Food Insecurity: 34.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (6.1–19.7%)
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.0% (19.9–36.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (5.5–18.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Sumter city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Annes Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Holy Comforter — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Santee Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church Of The Living God — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away