First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Paris, TX 75460. It is one of 106 churches in Paris, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.
Paris, TX, 75460First 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 44.1% (26.8–61.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Poverty Rate: 32.5% (22.5–42.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.4% (17.5–31.3%)
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.7%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.7–11.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Paris city is served by 65 churches — about one congregation for every 306 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Holy Cross — 0.1 mi away
- Trumpet Magazine — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Connections Paris — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living Word Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Johnson Chapel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away