New Hanover County, North Carolina
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
31 |
25,133 |
209.0 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
14 |
5,919 |
49.2 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
13 |
8,046 |
66.9 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
10,068 |
83.7 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
7 |
3,495 |
29.1 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
587 |
4.9 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
6 |
4,901 |
40.8 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
1,053 |
8.8 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
2,140 |
17.8 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
134 |
1.1 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
349 |
2.9 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
372 |
3.1 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
2 |
500 |
4.2 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
334 |
2.8 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
144 |
1.2 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
86 |
0.7 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
2 |
873 |
7.3 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
587 |
4.9 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
324 |
2.7 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
121 |
1.0 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
623 |
5.2 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
200 |
1.7 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Primitive Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
4 |
0.0 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
88 |
0.7 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
151 |
1.3 |
| Moravian Church in America--Southern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
175 |
1.5 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
25 |
0.2 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
82 |
0.7 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
34 |
0.3 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
1,555 |
12.9 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
1 |
114 |
1.0 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
8,707 |
72.4 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 133 |
76,924 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 120,284. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (76,924) include 64.0% 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.
