First General Baptist Church

First General Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Nashville-Davidson, TN 37218. It is one of 705 churches in Nashville-Davidson, and one of 208 Baptist congregations in the city.

Nashville-Davidson, TN, 37218

First General Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,417 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 First General Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

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  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 30.9% (17.7–44.1%)
  • Diabetes: 22.8%
  • Obesity: 43.4%
  • Depression: 25.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%

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

Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) is served by 773 churches — about one congregation for every 875 residents.

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