Macon County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

14,659	3,886		1,493	286	9,487
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	1.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	972	41.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	554	23.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	2.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	464	19.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	210	8.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	1.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	65	2.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	511	21.8
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	189	8.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	4	0.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	164	7.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	499	21.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	1.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	124	5.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	44	10,768	458.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	40	1.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	15	2,501	106.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	95	17,222

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 23,499. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (17,222) include 73.3% 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.