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	% Change
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,392	8.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+65	12.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+907	74.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+152	31.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+713	614.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+12	20.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+536	55.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,351	26.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-2	-3.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+242	152.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-314	-37.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+133	9.5%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-43	-50.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+97	140.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+1,665	397.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-68	-8.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-12	-1,128	-40.4%
	Totals:	-3	+5,710	+18.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 81,306; in 2000 it was 121,965. The total population changed 50.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (37,639) represent 46.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (42,940) include 35.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 17 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 17 groups had 31,212 adherents in 1990 and 36,922 adherents in 2000, for a change of 18.3%

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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