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Alamance County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

23,493 27,636 132 3,047 1,020 75,472
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 Adherence Rate
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 1 750 7.6
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 319 3.2
Catholic Church Catholic 1 1,653 16.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 4 525 5.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 111 1.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 57 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 211 2.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 348 3.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 715 7.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 169 1.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 661 6.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 2,228 22.4
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 213 2.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 9 1,621 16.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 5 526 5.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 130 1.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 30 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 13 5,133 51.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 599 6.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 374 3.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 88 0.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 30 14,922 150.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 36 8,345 84.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 28 14,458 145.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 157 54,269  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 99,319. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (54,269) include 54.6% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.