Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

128,640	120,641	3,471	59,292	21,561	361,849
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	1	409	0.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	37	39,794	77.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	8,117	15.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,205	4.3
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,896	5.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	35,754	69.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	11	27,017	52.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	310	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	185	0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	900	1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	513	1.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	305	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	17	6,193	12.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	177	0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	3,319	6.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,273	2.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,318	4.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	14	9,071	17.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	350	0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	14	7,896	15.4
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	454	0.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	147	0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,175	4.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	10,950	21.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,155	2.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	439	0.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	2,105	4.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,744	5.4
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	772	1.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	263	0.5
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	72	39,689	77.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,823	3.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	189	0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,473	4.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	94	71,259	139.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	730	1.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	490	1.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	53	40,876	79.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	455	0.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	93	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	454	328,378

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 511,433. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (328,378) include 64.2% 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.