Cherokee County, Georgia

Denominational Groups, 2000

36,533	10,064	207	5,803	454	88,842
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+135	167.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+5,453	1558.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+503	114.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+999	214.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+108	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+181	62.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+205	360.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,076	n.a.
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+2,094	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+476	700.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+942	368.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+204	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+54	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16,969	129.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+4,035	116.0%
	Totals:	22	+33,434	+179.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 51,699; in 2000 it was 141,903. The total population changed 57.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (18,666) represent 36.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (53,061) include 37.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 15 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 15 groups had 18,666 adherents in 1980 and 52,100 adherents in 2000, for a change of 179.1%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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