Lee County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,804	9,034		1,989	381	26,832
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	13	6,107	166.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	6,076	165.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	11	4,074	111.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	3,175	86.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	1,066	29.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	626	17.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	424	11.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	370	10.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	275	7.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	255	6.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	250	6.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	248	6.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	209	5.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	1.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	1.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	74	23,253

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 36,718. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (23,253) include 63.3% 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.