Gaston County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

76,199	26,004		5,304	1,857	81,001
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	26	9,714	59.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,215	7.5
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,870	11.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	2,224	13.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	33	4,441	27.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	398	2.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	309	1.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	216	1.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	806	5.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	15	5,995	36.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,054	6.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	411	2.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	208	1.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	110	0.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	20	6,600	40.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	770	4.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,586	9.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	97	50,522	310.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	38	13,751	84.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	269	102,225

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 162,568. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (102,225) include 62.9% 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.