Orange County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,690	16,752		6,905	685	82,195
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	+2,818	69.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+1,433	20.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+555	24.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+373	17.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+363	106.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+109	209.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+94	10.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+62	112.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+36	3.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+24	19.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+17	8.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10	12.5%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4	-18.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-17.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-17	-42.5%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-33	-41.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-37	-5.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-532	-6.1%
	Totals:	+1	+5,264	+18.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 93,851; in 2000 it was 118,227. The total population changed 26.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (35,185) represent 37.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (36,032) include 30.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 19 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 19 groups had 28,124 adherents in 1990 and 33,388 adherents in 2000, for a change of 18.7%

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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