First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jefferson, TX 75657. It is one of 54 churches in Jefferson, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jefferson, TX, 75657First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 2.5 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 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 42.3% (23.9–60.8%)
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (9.4–21.8%)
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (12.1–30.9%)
- Unemployment: 8.0% (1.1–14.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Jefferson city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 447 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Jefferson Central Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Temple Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
- Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Paul United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Centerhill Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Linden, TX
- Hall Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Pope City Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away