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
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+9,448	275.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+5,592	27.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+2,633	35.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,922	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+1,091	1001.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+939	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+732	38.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+444	54.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+315	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+250	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+218	303.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+130	75.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+126	41.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+121	28.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+113	110.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+100	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+94	13.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+76	57.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+71	1.0%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	+69	87.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+56	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+27	3.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+27	5.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	31.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-25	-16.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-46	-20.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-47	-31.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-119	-24.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-66	-12,498	-73.0%
	Totals:	+-52	+11,868	+19.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 103,471; in 2000 it was 160,307. The total population changed 33.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (72,874) represent 70.4% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 61,847 adherents in 1980 and 73,715 adherents in 2000, for a change of 19.2%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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