Buncombe County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

73,413	26,692	612	8,470	3,485	93,658
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
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+456	35.7%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+91	65.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+490	429.8%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+3,450	6.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+572	91.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+451	92.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+6	1.1%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,700	566.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+272	5.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+594	21.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+303	15.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+309	35.1%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+4,083	93.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+73	64.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+7	16.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+355	12.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+237	23.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+71	236.7%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-11,750	-90.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+64	13.2%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-14.6%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-1.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+207	39.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+33	19.9%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-35	-12.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+37	10.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+107	21.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-93	-6.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-228	-66.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-248	-37.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	+534	3.7%
	Totals:	+6	+2,133	+2.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 174,821; in 2000 it was 206,330. The total population changed 18.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (117,631) represent 67.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (112,672) include 54.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 109,030 adherents in 1990 and 111,163 adherents in 2000, for a change of 2.0%

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 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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