Johnston County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

29,249	10,736		2,084	871	79,025
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,024	28.7
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	239	3.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	358	5.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	19	2,751	39.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	360	5.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	13	873	12.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	215	3.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	216	3.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,137	16.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	16	1,503	21.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	1.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	134	1.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	46	15,367	217.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	688	9.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	20	4,855	68.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	151	30,922

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 70,599. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (30,922) include 43.8% 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.