Piney Grove AME Church

The community around Piney Grove AME 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 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 21.6%
• Obesity: 40.0%
• Social Isolation: 31.4%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
• Poverty Rate: 19.3% (10.7–27.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
• Diabetes: 14.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.1–17.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
• Unemployment: 8.0% (4.1–11.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Piney Grove AME Church

• Fish Hatchery Road Church of God — 0.4 mi away
• Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
• Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 1.3 mi away
• Iglesia Jesucristo Es El Camino — 1.8 mi away in West Columbia, SC
• South Congaree Assembly of God — 1.8 mi away in West Columbia, SC
• Shiloh Church — 2.2 mi away
• Calvary Church — 2.3 mi away
• Platts Spring Church — 2.3 mi away in South Congaree, SC
• Ignite Fellowship — 2.4 mi away in West Columbia, SC