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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+64	26.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+1,363	218.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+43	21.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+14	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+365	99.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+104	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+376	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-36	-60.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+42	110.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+66	16.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-18	-7.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+31	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+284	111.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+130	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-404	-13.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+2,457	40.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-50	-5.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+201	5.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+115	n.a.
	Totals:	12	+5,147	+30.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 36,718; in 2000 it was 49,040. The total population changed 18.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (23,253) represent 63.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (22,208) include 45.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 19 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 19 groups had 16,902 adherents in 1980 and 22,049 adherents in 2000, for a change of 30.5%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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