Durham County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

39,314	29,638	291	9,818	8,754	135,499
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+2,834	71.7%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+52	12.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+4,505	84.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-207	-59.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-31	-24.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+30	44.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-26	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+12	3.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-13	-6.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+987	133.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+114	186.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-138	-12.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+196	7.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-70	-5.6%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-82	-58.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+225	45.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+95	13.6%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+2,597	185.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-169	-38.8%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-78	-65.0%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	+164	282.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-502	-49.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+330	8.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,104	5257.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	6.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+147	22.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+9	-2,765	-8.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+199	28.8%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-18	-1.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-938	-7.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+121	205.1%
	Totals:	+20	+8,684	+11.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 181,835; in 2000 it was 223,314. The total population changed 22.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (97,743) represent 53.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (87,815) include 39.3% 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 72,853 adherents in 1990 and 81,537 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.9%

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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