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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+112	43.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+1,954	99.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+154	187.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+248	166.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-16	-7.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+160	67.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-256	-23.9%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+85	188.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+405	85.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+400	121.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	12.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-1	-1.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+987	22.1%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+89	96.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	12.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,135	13.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+157	16.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-301	-5.4%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-90	-36.7%
	Totals:	+3	+5,245	+21.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 59,013; in 2000 it was 74,769. The total population changed 26.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (33,632) represent 57.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (30,546) include 40.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 20 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 20 groups had 24,980 adherents in 1990 and 30,225 adherents in 2000, for a change of 21.0%

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 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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