First English Lutheran Church
First English Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Wheeling, WV 26003. It is one of 96 churches in Wheeling, and one of 7 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Wheeling, WV, 26003First English Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First English Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 48.5%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (26.7–53.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Depression: 32.6%
- Food Insecurity: 30.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (2.1–20.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Wheeling city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 339 residents.
Churches near First English Lutheran Church
- St. Matthew's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Joseph — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word — 0.2 mi away
- Agape Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Harvester Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Blue Church — 0.2 mi away