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
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,182	124.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+940	11.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+546	9.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+500	100.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+378	82.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+279	22.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+247	588.1%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+243	49.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+215	30.2%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+211	14.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+197	113.2%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+191	139.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+177	36.9%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	0	+89	287.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+89	78.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+40	114.3%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+36	13.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-37	-42.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	-60	-20.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-67	-59.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-73	-24.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-235	-11.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,458	-48.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-10	-1,976	-42.5%
	Totals:	-6	+2,654	+8.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 107,924; in 2000 it was 133,798. The total population changed 24.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (44,461) represent 41.2% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 24 groups had 32,716 adherents in 1990 and 35,370 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.1%

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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