First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Buckhannon, WV 26201. It is one of 33 churches in Buckhannon.
Buckhannon, WV, 26201Website: http://firstbaptistbuckhannon.net/
First 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. About a third of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Depression: 32.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.0% (13.3–34.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Food Insecurity: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.8–13.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Buckhannon city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 216 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Central Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chapel Hill United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Brushstroke Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Gateway Gathering of Buckhannon — 0.2 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration — 0.3 mi away
- North Central Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chapel Hill United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Community Church — 0.3 mi away