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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 +2 +3,800 127.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +108 31.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +6,824 228.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -173 -55.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -146 -61.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -81 -45.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -36 n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +47 16.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +204 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +1,241 255.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +89 104.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +653 198.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -2 +755 36.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +83 8.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +19 49.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +291 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +725 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +409 106.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +4 +3,426 597.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -2.0%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant +1 +222 n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +4 +512 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +2 +1,128 34.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +910 423.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -777 -85.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +463 133.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +14 -107 0.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +722 430.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 +120 9.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -1,331 -10.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +49 245.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +180 n.a.
  Totals: +46 +20,325 +33.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 152,785; in 2000 it was 223,314. The total population changed 22.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (68,931) represent 45.1% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 32 groups had 61,530 adherents in 1980 and 81,855 adherents in 2000, for a change of 33.0%

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 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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