Pitt County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

20,371	16,396		3,938	1,628	91,465
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+737	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+261	522.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+3,123	383.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-9	-1,466	-35.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+104	14.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+514	124.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+120	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+51	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+376	134.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+145	254.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+4	+1,543	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-27	-10.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,000	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+45	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+284	21.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+240	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+1,539	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+73	4.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+303	1212.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-36	-11.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+204	122.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,054	20.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+46	159.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+2,314	33.0%
	Totals:	15	+12,547	+55.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 90,146; in 2000 it was 133,798. The total population changed 24.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (23,487) represent 26.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (42,333) include 31.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 24 groups had 22,823 adherents in 1980 and 35,370 adherents in 2000, for a change of 55.0%

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 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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