Decatur First Baptist Church
Decatur First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Decatur, TN 37322. It is one of 32 churches in Decatur, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Decatur, TN, 37322Decatur First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Decatur First Baptist Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Unemployment: 12.3% (6.0–18.7%)
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Depression: 31.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Poverty Rate: 18.7% (13.0–24.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (8.5–15.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Decatur town is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 1,209 residents.
Churches near Decatur First Baptist Church
- Decatur United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Decatur Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Five Point Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith Independent Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Union Grove Church — 1.9 mi away
- Calvary Church — 2.7 mi away
- Walnut Grove Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Concord Church — 3.2 mi away
- Bogles Chapel — 3.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Walnut Grove Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Idlewild Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Athens, TN
- Washington Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Dayton, TN
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 7 mi away in Athens, TN
- Clearwater Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Athens, TN