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	13	1,542	19.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	263	3.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	515	6.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	4,285	52.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	419	5.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	19	2,789	34.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,219	15.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	11	484	6.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	116	1.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	159	2.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	110	1.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	961	11.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	842	10.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	15	1,396	17.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	1.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	13	180	2.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	47	16,180	199.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	835	10.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	20	5,027	61.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	185	37,639

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 81,306. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (37,639) include 46.3% 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.