Church of the Good Shepherd
Church of the Good Shepherd is a Episcopal church at 1512 Blanding Street in Columbia, SC 29201. It is one of 423 churches in Columbia, and one of 6 Episcopal congregations in the city.
Serving since 1883
1512 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC, 29201Website: http://www.goodshepherdcolumbia.org/
Church of the Good Shepherd is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Church of the Good Shepherd
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half 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.
- Child Poverty: 82.6%
- Poverty Rate: 58.2%
- Food Insecurity: 28.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Depression: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7% (11.2–20.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbia city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 960 residents.
Churches near Church of the Good Shepherd
- St. Paul’s Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Apostles — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina — 0.2 mi away
- Revolution- SC UMC — 0.2 mi away
- Centennial Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Korean Community Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ladson Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Washington Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away