First Mexican Baptist Church
First Mexican Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 601 Farris Street in Wichita Falls, TX 76301. It is one of 174 churches in Wichita Falls, and one of 29 Baptist congregations in the city.
601 Farris Street, Wichita Falls, TX, 76301First Mexican Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Mexican 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 67.0% (48.1–86.0%)
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Poverty Rate: 46.6% (30.9–62.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 35.8% (23.7–47.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.4%
- Diabetes: 24.6%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (1.2–20.9%)
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Wichita Falls city is served by 92 churches — about one congregation for every 872 residents.
Churches near First Mexican Baptist Church
- Mount Calvary United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mitchells Chapel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Full Gospel Powerhouse Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.5 mi away
- Pillar Ground Truth Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Anderson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away