Saint Gerards Catholic Church
Saint Gerards Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 640 Edrie Street Northeast in Aiken, SC 29801. It is one of 118 churches in Aiken, and one of 3 Catholic congregations in the city.
640 Edrie Street Northeast, Aiken, SC, 29801Website: https://www.stgerardinaiken.org/
Saint Gerards Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 148 congregations of the Catholic family gather across South Carolina — 18,933 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Gerards Catholic 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.0% (19.5–46.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Aiken city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 621 residents.
Churches near Saint Gerards Catholic Church
- Second Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Cristo te Ama — 0.9 mi away
- All Saints Anglican Church — 0.9 mi away
- Cumberland African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 1 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Mary's Church — 1 mi away
- Old Saint Mary's Church — 1.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church — 15.2 mi away in North Augusta, SC
- Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church (rectory) — 15.9 mi away in Augusta-Richmond County, GA
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