Moore County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,897	14,331		3,913	405	44,223
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	12	3,724	73.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	135	2.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,383	27.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	145	2.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	99	2.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	878	17.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	292	5.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	6	362	7.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	1.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	1.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	102	2.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	22	4,258	84.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	628	12.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	646	12.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	18	5,070	100.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	79	17,906

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 50,505. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (17,906) include 35.5% 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.