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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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 24 8,523 144.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 22 4,462 75.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 20 5,578 94.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 16 5,071 85.9
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 6 330 5.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 961 16.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 5 216 3.7
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 3 366 6.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 149 2.5
Catholic Church Catholic 2 1,959 33.2
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 245 4.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 257 4.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 92 1.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 476 8.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 82 1.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 236 4.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 1,072 18.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 125 2.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 61 1.0
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 65 1.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 3,182 53.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 123 33,632  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 59,013. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (33,632) include 57.0% 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.