Cleveland County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

47,156	11,603		1,071	459	35,998
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	7	2,236	26.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	82	1.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	423	5.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	5,270	62.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	802	9.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	815	9.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	303	3.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	214	2.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	1.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	352	4.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,005	11.9
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.7
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	144	1.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	256	3.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	332	3.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,776	21.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	181	2.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	90	40,251	475.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	39	8,816	104.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	449	5.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	176	64,010

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 84,714. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (64,010) include 75.6% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.