First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a church in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 111 churches in Parkersburg.
Parkersburg, WV, 26101First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 47.1%
- Depression: 34.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (16.3–32.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (4.6–16.2%)
- Child Poverty: 28.2% (17.8–39.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Nineteenth Street Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Ninteenth Street Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Patrick's Anglican Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Temple Evangelical Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- One Church — 0.5 mi away