Watauga County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,333	5,419	24	1,088	420	22,411
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	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	46	11,846	320.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	11	2,112	57.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	976	26.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	146	4.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	688	18.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	610	16.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	51	1.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	328	8.9
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	168	4.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	2.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	140	3.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	226	6.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	1.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	119	3.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	12	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	2.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	783	21.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	214	5.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	86	18,785

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 36,952. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (18,785) include 50.8% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.