Wilkes County, North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

32,824	4,610		601	241	27,356
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	172	2.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	534	9.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	201	3.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	91	1.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	281	4.8
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	130	2.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	165	2.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	262	4.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	217	3.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	236	4.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	754	12.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	90	30,391	518.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	16	3,194	54.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	130	36,710

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 58,657. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (36,710) include 62.6% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.