New Hanover County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

34,773	24,336	939	12,887	2,708	84,664
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	+64	17.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+7,986	162.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+2	1.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-69	-11.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+169	139.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+213	20.2%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+14	16.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+72	8.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-144	-44.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+22	6.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,092	31.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+510	23.8%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+367	23.6%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+22	64.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+219	65.6%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+700	140.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+59	39.1%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-27	-15.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+225	900.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+33	0.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-44	-53.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+226	38.5%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,035	4.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+102	89.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-40	-27.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+2,080	25.9%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+227	258.0%
	Totals:	+5	+15,115	+26.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 120,284; in 2000 it was 160,307. The total population changed 33.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (76,924) represent 64.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (75,643) include 47.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 27 groups had 57,358 adherents in 1990 and 72,473 adherents in 2000, for a change of 26.4%

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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